Studio portrait of 104 Corporal (Cpl) Thomas Douglas Leatherby, 114th Howitzer Battery 14th ...

Accession Number P09672.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Studio portrait of 104 Corporal (Cpl) Thomas Douglas Leatherby, 114th Howitzer Battery 14th Brigade Australian Field Artillery. A carter from Sydney before embarking aboard HMAT Orsova (A67) on 17 July 1915, Cpl Leatherby died of wounds received, from a shell, whilst manning an ammunitions wagon in Joncourt, France, on the 4th October 1918. He was 18 years old.