Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) John Stanley Piesse, 93rd (Derwent) Infantry Regiment, ...

Accession Number P07747.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Tasmania
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 Lieutenant (Lt) John Stanley Piesse, 93rd (Derwent) Infantry Regiment, Citizens Military Forces (CMF), of Hobart, Tas. On his right breast Lt Piesse is wearing a ribbon of the Coronation Medal 1911. On 26 July 1916 Piesse enlisted in the 40th Battalion as a private. He embarked with the 6th Reinforcements from Melbourne on HMAT Orsova on 6 December 1916. Although Private Piesse had held the rank of lieutenant in the CMF, and was temporarily promoted to acting sergeant major in the AIF, he was considered too young for a commission. On 13 October 1917 he was killed in action at Passchendaele, Belgium, aged 20. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium.