Studio portrait of 32912 Driver (later Gunner) Robert Leslie Dick Moxham, 2nd (later 10th) Field ...

Accession Number P08624.089
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 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.