Studio portrait of 723 Private Owen Murray (also known as Owen Keith Murray), 1st Battalion of ...

Accession Number P08624.090
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 723 Private Owen Murray (also known as Owen Keith Murray), 1st Battalion of Parramatta, NSW. An architect prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard the HMAT Afric (A19) on 18 October 1914. He was killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey on 20 May 1915, aged 21. He is buried in Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Anzac, Turkey.