Informal outdoor portrait of Captain Leslie Craig, 10th Light Horse Regiment, and his fiancee, ...

Accession Number P08414.005
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Ireland, United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London, Wandsworth
Date made 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

Informal outdoor portrait of Captain Leslie Craig, 10th Light Horse Regiment, and his fiancee, Frances Eileen Boyd, in the garden of Dr J C Boyd in Lifford, County Donegal, Ireland.
Craig was serving with his unit at Gallipoli when he sustained gunshot wounds to his left leg and right arm on 7 August and was evacuated to Alexandria in Egypt. The injuries to his arm healed, but his left leg had to be amputated, and after further treatment was sent to England, being admitted to the 3rd London General Hospital at Wandsworth in June 1916.
He remained in London and was fitted for a prosthetic leg. While convalescing he met Francis Eileen Boyd, a VAD working at the hospital. They were married in her hometown of Lifford on 17 September 1917, and left England for Australia the following month. The couple made their home at Dardanup, Western Australia, and raised four children.