Studio portrait of 3555 Lance Corporal Lindsay Bertram Murray, 4th Battalion. A railway signal ...

Accession Number P05899.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
Date made c 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 3555 Lance Corporal Lindsay Bertram Murray, 4th Battalion. A railway signal fitter of Goulburn, NSW, (originally of Breadalbane) prior to enlistment, he embarked with the 11th Reinforcements on HMAT Port Lincoln (A17) on 13 October 1915. He later transferred to the 53rd Battalion. On 28 July 1916, aged 23, he died of wounds received at Pozieres, France. Lance Corporal Murray is buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery.