Informal portrait of 3661 Private Leonard Ernest Smart, 26th Battalion. A tinsmith of Hobart, ...

Accession Number P05469.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Bennett, J C
Place made Australia: Tasmania
Date made c 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

Informal portrait of 3661 Private Leonard Ernest Smart, 26th Battalion. A tinsmith of Hobart, Tas, he enlisted on 1 October 1915 and sailed with the 8th Reinforcements aboard HMAT Afric on 5 January 1916. He was killed in action, aged 19, on 14 November 1916. He is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.