Studio portrait of 242 Private (Pte) Cornelius Thomas McCarthy, 6 Machine Gun Company, of ...

Accession Number P08636.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England
Date made c 1916
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 242 Private (Pte) Cornelius Thomas McCarthy, 6 Machine Gun Company, of Melbourne, Vic; formerly of London, England. A carter prior to enlisting in March 1916, Pte McCarthy embarked from Melbourne with the 2nd Reinforcements aboard HMAT Port Lincoln (A17) on 4 May 1916. He later transferred to the 15th Machine Gun Company and was killed in action at Ypres, Belgium, on 30 September 1917. Pte McCarthy was 23 years of age.