Studio portrait of 175 Private (Pte) (later Sergeant) William Lionel (Leo) Hine, 21st Battalion, ...

Accession Number P06801.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Studio portrait of 175 Private (Pte) (later Sergeant) William Lionel (Leo) Hine, 21st Battalion, of Windsor, Vic. Pte Hine was an engineer and iron-turner prior to his enlistment on 31 January 1915. He embarked with A Company on 10 May 1915 from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses. He died of wounds received at Becourt, France, on 24 August 1916. He was 26 years old.