Studio portrait of 1723 Private (later Trooper) Alexander Robertson, 1st Light Horse Regiment of ...

Accession Number P08624.198
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 1723 Private (later Trooper) Alexander Robertson, 1st Light Horse Regiment of Granville, NSW. A bricklayer's labourer prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard SS Hawkes Bay on 23 October 1915. He was killed in action in Palestine on 27 June 1918, aged 27. He is buried in the Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel.