Accession Number | P08624.361 |
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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 This item is in the Public Domain |
Studio portrait of 5411 Private Ernest Robert Morris, 13th (later 45th) Battalion of Lidcombe, ...
Description
Studio portrait of 5411 Private Ernest Robert Morris, 13th (later 45th) Battalion of Lidcombe, NSW. A drover prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Nestor (A71) on 9 April 1916. He was killed in action in the trenches at Pozieres, France, on 6 August 1916, aged 26. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.