Studio portrait of 149 Trooper (Tpr) William Harold Pinkerton, 1st Australian Light Horse ...

Accession Number P08052.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made c 1912
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 149 Trooper (Tpr) William Harold Pinkerton, 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment wearing the full dress uniform of the NSW Lancers. Tpr Pinkerton, a labourer from Scone, NSW prior to enlistment, embarked with A Squadron from Sydney on HMAT Star of Victoria on 20 October 1914. On 7 August 1915 he was killed in action at Gallipoli, aged 23 and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial.