Studio portrait of 783 Private (Pte) Aubrey Randolph Loomes, 1st Battalion. A school teacher at ...

Accession Number P08141.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made 1914
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 783 Private (Pte) Aubrey Randolph Loomes, 1st Battalion. A school teacher at Paddington Superior Public School, NSW, prior to enlistment, he embarked with his unit on HMAT Afric on 18 October 1914. Pte Loomes was killed in action at the Gallipoli peninsula on 2 May 1915. He was aged 22 years.