Studio portrait on a commemorative card of 1334 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Harold Thorp, 16th ...

Accession Number P07116.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Date made 1914
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

Studio portrait on a commemorative card of 1334 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Harold Thorp, 16th Battalion, of Broken Hill, NSW. A labourer prior to enlistment, L Cpl Thorp embarked with H Company from Melbourne on HMAT Ceramic on 22 December 1914. On 11 April 1917 he was killed in action in France, aged 32. He has no known grave and is commemorated at the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.