Studio portrait of George Thomas Maurice May, of Erskineville, NSW, who served as 3892 Private ...

Accession Number P06901.008
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file JPEG
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made 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 George Thomas Maurice May, of Erskineville, NSW, who served as 3892 Private (Pte) Charles Henry Smith, 30 Battalion. George May, who stated on enlistment that he was a coal miner and that he was 23 years old, embarked from Sydney on HMAT Anchises on 24 August 1916 with the 9th Reinforcements. He was killed in Belgium on 30 September 1917, at the age of 19.