Studio portrait of 5744 Private 4th Battalion of Liverpool, NSW. A painter prior to enlisting, ...

Accession Number P08624.401
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 5744 Private 4th Battalion of Liverpool, NSW. A painter prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Kyarra (A55) on 3 June 1916. Pte was killed in action during the second battle of Bullecourt, France on 6 May 1917, aged 36. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial.