Studio portrait of 3138 Private (later Lance Corporal) Charles Willoughby Weston, 8th Light Horse ...

Accession Number P05998.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1917
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 3138 Private (later Lance Corporal) Charles Willoughby Weston, 8th Light Horse Regiment (later 9th Mobile Veterinary Section, Australian Army Veterinary Corps). A horse breaker of Wandiligong, Victoria, prior to enlistment, Private Weston embarked on 31 January 1917 aboard HMAT Anglo Egyptian (A25). Lance Corporal Weston died of pneumonia on 28 October 1918, aged 38.