Studio portrait of 2878 Private (Pte) Lester Douglas Crossley, 4th Battalion. A farmer and ...

Place Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Pozieres Area, Pozieres
Accession Number P06365.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital 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 2878 Private (Pte) Lester Douglas Crossley, 4th Battalion. A farmer and station hand of Booligal, NSW, before he enlisted in September 1915, Pte Crossley embarked for training in Egypt on HMAT Euripides with the 6th Reinforcements, 19th Battalion, on 2 November 1915. In February 1916 he was taken on strength of 4th Battalion, soon before sailing for France and service on the Western Front. Pte Crossley was killed in action at Pozieres, France, on 24 July 1916. His remains were not recovered, and his name appears on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial, Villers Bretonneux, France.