Studio portrait of 2919 Private Leslie James Holloway, 55th Battalion of Manly, NSW. A bank ...

Accession Number P05413.037
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1816
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 2919 Private Leslie James Holloway, 55th Battalion of Manly, NSW. A bank clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Ascanius (A11) on 25 October 1916. On 9 May 1917, he was killed in action at Bullecourt, France, aged 26. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.