Accession Number | P06024.001 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Digital print |
Maker |
Unknown |
Place made | Australia |
Date made | 1916 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Studio portrait of 11821 Company Sergeant Major (CSM) George Francis Lloyd, 3rd Divisional Supply ...
Description
Studio portrait of 11821 Company Sergeant Major (CSM) George Francis Lloyd, 3rd Divisional Supply Column, Australian Army Service Corps (AASC) of Essendon, Vic. A clerk before enlisting in April 1916, CSM Lloyd left Australia for England with Supply Column 3 of the Army Service Corps in June 1916. Arriving in France for service on the Western Front in August 1916, he contracted pleuritis and was administered to the 1st Casualty Clearing Station at Estaires on 20 January 1917, where he died ten days later aged 21.