Studio portrait of 2918 Private Sydney Carlisle Todd, 1st Battalion of Lidcombe, NSW. A railway ...

Accession Number P08624.380
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 2918 Private Sydney Carlisle Todd, 1st Battalion of Lidcombe, NSW. A railway clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Argyllshire (A8) on 30 September 1915. He was killed in action near Gueudecourt, France on 5 November 1916, aged 22. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.