Studio portrait of 7275 Private Frank Munro (also known as Francis Leo Munro), 2nd (later 36th) ...

Accession Number P08624.364
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 7275 Private Frank Munro (also known as Francis Leo Munro), 2nd (later 36th) Battalion of Lidcombe, NSW. A station hand prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard RMS Osterley on 10 February 1917. He was wounded in action near Villers-Bretonneux, France, on 4 April 1918. He died of his wounds at the 41st Casualty Clearing Station, France on 6 April 1918, aged 22. He is buried in the Namps-au-Val British Cemetery, France.