Studio portrait of 6672 Sapper Horace Mervyn Herrod, 7th Field Coy Engineers, of Paddington, NSW, ...

Accession Number P05301.106
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1915
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 6672 Sapper Horace Mervyn Herrod, 7th Field Coy Engineers, of Paddington, NSW, son of Matilda Hannah, and the late Reuben Herrod. A compositor prior to enlisting at Paddington, NSW on 15 December 1915, he left Australia aboard HMAT Orsova and disembarked at Alexandria on 14 April 1916. He was killed in action on 8 January 1917 in France, aged 25. He is buried in Delville Wood Cemetery Longueval, France.