Studio portrait of 1921 Private Samuel Russell Bycroft, 4th Battalion of Lidcombe, NSW. A ...

Accession Number P08624.326
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 1921 Private Samuel Russell Bycroft, 4th Battalion of Lidcombe, NSW. A labourer prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Kyarra (A55) on 13 April 1915. On 6 August 1915, he was killed in action at Gallipoli, Turkey, aged 29. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey.