Accession Number | P08624.089 |
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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
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Studio portrait of 32912 Driver (later Gunner) Robert Leslie Dick Moxham, 2nd (later 10th) Field ...
Description
Studio portrait of 32912 Driver (later Gunner) Robert Leslie Dick Moxham, 2nd (later 10th) Field Artillery Brigade of Parramatta, NSW. A grazier prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard the HMAT Shropshire (A9) on 11 May 1917. He died at the 5th Casualty Clearing Station, France on 4 July 1918, aged 26, from wounds received in action at Blangy-Tronville near Villers-Bretonneux, France, on 3 July 1918 during an attack on Hamel. He is buried in Crouy British Cemetery Crouy-Sur-Somme, France.