Studio portrait of Gunner (Gnr) Humphrey William Thomas, 4th Field Artillery Brigage, with three ...

Places	Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Bapaume Cambrai Area, Bullecourt Oceania: Australia, Victoria
Accession Number	P06534.001
Collection type	Photograph
Object type	Black & white - Digital print
Maker	Unknown
Date made	c 1915
Conflict	First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of Gunner (Gnr) Humphrey William Thomas, 4th Field Artillery Brigage, with three members of his family. A native of Hawthorn, Victoria, Gnr Thomas worked as a civil servant with the Department of Works and Railways prior to enlisting on 9 July 1915. He embarked for service overseas from Melbourne with the 11th Battery aboard HMAT Wiltshire on 18 November 1915. On 8 May 1917, Gnr Thomas was killed in action at Bullecourt, France, aged 25.