Studio portrait of 6116 Private Harold Douglas Martin Landers, 22nd Battalion of Smithfield, NSW. ...

Accession Number P08624.448
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 6116 Private Harold Douglas Martin Landers, 22nd Battalion of Smithfield, NSW. A fitter prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Argyllshire (A8) on 31 October 1916. Initially, he was reported missing but later was declared to have died in action on 3 May 1917 during the second battle at Bullecourt, France, aged 20. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.