Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Harry Nagel, 11th Field Artillery Brigade, of North Perth, WA. ...

Accession Number P06567.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Caron, Leon
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Amiens
Date made 20 March 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 Lieutenant (Lt) Harry Nagel, 11th Field Artillery Brigade, of North Perth, WA. Lt Nagel was a business manager before enlisting on 17 August 1914. He embarked from Fremantle on 31 October 1914, on HMAT Medic, as Quartermaster Sergeant with the 8th Battery of the 3rd Field Artillery brigade, regimental number 1861. After serving on Gallipoli, he was transferred to 112th Battery, 24th Howitzer Brigade.
He was promoted to Lieutenant on 1 August 1916, and transferred to 111th Battery, 11th Field Artillery Brigade on 25 January 1917. On 22 July 1917 he was wounded in Belgium and evacuated to hospital in Le Havre; on 3 August 1917 he rejoined his unit in Belgium. On 17 October 1917 he was killed in action in Belgium: while returning along the duckboard walk from Zonnebeke to the battery position near Kit and Kat Ridge, he was hit by a shell. He was mentioned in despatches dated 7 November 1917.