Studio portrait of 1254 Private Warwick James McLeod, 17th Battalion of Granville, NSW. A ...

Accession Number P08624.190
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 1254 Private Warwick James McLeod, 17th Battalion of Granville, NSW. A signwriter prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Themistocles (A32) on 12 May 1915. He was killed in action near Albert, France on 27 July 1916, aged 21. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.