Studio portrait of 3010 Acting Sergeant (later Private) Harry Walter Bancroft, 18th (later 53rd) ...

Accession Number P08624.226
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 3010 Acting Sergeant (later Private) Harry Walter Bancroft, 18th (later 53rd) Battalion of Burwood, NSW. A printer prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Suevic (A29) on 20 December 1916. He was wounded in action on 19 July 1917 at Fromelles, France and died next day at the 14th Field Ambulance Station, France, aged 27. He is buried in Anzac Cemetery, Sailly-Sur-La-Lys, France.