Studio portrait of 3379 Trooper (Tpr) Henry Bradley 'Lad' Sheridan, 5th Australian Light Horse ...

Accession Number P06469.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Row & Crosby
Place made Australia: Queensland
Date made November 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 3379 Trooper (Tpr) Henry Bradley 'Lad' Sheridan, 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment, of Rockhampton, Qld. A carpenter prior to enlistment, he embarked from Sydney, NSW, with the 28th Reinforcements aboard HMAT Port Sydney (A15) on 9 May 1917. On 12 January 1918 he fractured his skull after falling from a horse and he developed broncho pneumonia. He died in Ismalia, Egypt, on 24 January 1918 , aged 24.