Studio portrait of 5516 Gunner Dominick Joseph Maher, 1st Field Artillery Brigade of Lidcombe, ...

Accession Number P08624.360
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 5516 Gunner Dominick Joseph Maher, 1st Field Artillery Brigade of Lidcombe, NSW. A pastrycook prior to enlisting, he embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Nestor (A71) on 11 October 1915. He was killed in action, on 26 July 1916, near Pozieres, France, aged 25. He is buried in the Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers-La Boiselle, France.