Studio portrait of 7497 Private Alexander Richardson Kyle, 3rd Battalion of Granville, NSW. An ...

Accession Number P08624.175
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Cumberland
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, 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 7497 Private Alexander Richardson Kyle, 3rd Battalion of Granville, NSW. An Engineer's mechanic prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Euripides (A14) on 31 October 1917. While on patrol, he was killed in action at Bellicourt, France on 18 September 1918 and buried nearby, aged 31. Post war his grave was not located and he is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.