Studio portrait of 2284 Private (later Lance Corporal) Keith Taylor Luscombe, 20th Battalion of ...

Accession Number P08624.075
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 2284 Private (later Lance Corporal) Keith Taylor Luscombe, 20th Battalion of Marrickville, NSW, brother of 3975 L Cpl Broughton Taylor Luscombe, (killed in action on 18 April 1917, see P08624.074). A clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard the HMAT Argyllshire (A8) on 30 September 1915. He was wounded in action at Pozieres, France and died of his wounds in the 57th Field Ambulance on 27 July 1916, aged 20. He is buried in the Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, France.