Studio portrait of 59 Sergeant Donald Trevlyn Hood, 2nd Australian Division Headquarters. A clerk ...

Accession Number P05907.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print hand coloured black & white
Maker Unknown
Date made c October 1916
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 59 Sergeant Donald Trevlyn Hood, 2nd Australian Division Headquarters. A clerk prior to enlistment, 596 Private Hood embarked with the 27th Battalion from Adelaide on HMAT Geelong (A2) on 31 May 1915. In March 1916 he transferred to the 2nd Australian Division Headquarters. On 29 October 1917, he was killed in action in Belgium and buried at Ramparts Cemetery Lille Gate, Ypres. He was 21 years of age.