Studio portrait of 2156 Private (Pte) Thomas William Hayton, 3rd Battalion, Australian Machine ...

Accession Number P07196.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Marsden's Priory Studio
Place made United Kingdom: England, Yorkshire
Date made c 1915
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 2156 Private (Pte) Thomas William Hayton, 3rd Battalion, Australian Machine Gun Corps, of Ruthven, NSW, originally of Castleton, near Guisborough, Yorkshire, UK. Pte Hayton, aged 23, was killed in action around 5.00 am on the morning of 18 September 1918, when he was hit by a shell near Peronne, France.