Studio portrait of 2153 Private (later Lance Corporal) Thomas Gregory, 20th Battalion of ...

Accession Number P08624.052
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Cumberland
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1920
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 2153 Private (later Lance Corporal) Thomas Gregory, 20th Battalion of Parramatta, NSW. An ironworker prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard the HMAT Argyllshire (A8) on 30 September 1915. A British Army Boer War veteran, he died, aged 36, on 5 May 1916 at the 8th Casualty Clearing Station, France from gunshot wounds received in action at Bois Grenier, France on 3 May 1916. He is buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension, France.