Studio portrait of 113 Trooper (Tpr) Gresley Tatlock Harper, 10th Light Horse Regiment of ...

Accession Number P07183.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Toned black & white print
Maker Bartletto Studio
Place made Australia: Tasmania, Perth
Date made c 1914
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 113 Trooper (Tpr) Gresley Tatlock Harper, 10th Light Horse Regiment of Guildford, WA. A barrister prior to enlistment, Tpr Harper enlisted with his younger brother, 114 Tpr Wilfred Lukin Harper, on 5 October 1914. The men embarked together aboard HMAT Mashobra (A47) on 8 February 1915 from Fremantle. The brothers were both killed in action on Walker's Ridge, Gallipoli on 7 August 1915. Their younger brother, Lieutenant Prescot Henry Harper, survived the war.