Studio portrait of 595B Private (Pte) Hector George Honeychurch, 5th Battalion AIF (sitting) and ...

Accession Number P07486.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Morrison's Studios
Date made c 1917
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 595B Private (Pte) Hector George Honeychurch, 5th Battalion AIF (sitting) and his brother 4117 Driver (Dvr) William Honeychurch, 3rd Divisional Ammunition Column (3DAC). Hector Honeychurch, a driver from Wandiligong near Bright in Victoria was killed in action near Harbonnieres, France on 23 August 1918. He was 22. William survived the war although a third brother 206 Pte Henry Honeychurch, 14th Battalion AIF, was killed in action at Gallipoli on 27 April 1915 aged 21.