Outdoor portrait of 897 Private (Pte) Leonard Frederick Bysh, 44th Battalion with Dover family ...

P10556.001
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Accession Number P10556.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England
Date made 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
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Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Outdoor portrait of 897 Private (Pte) Leonard Frederick Bysh, 44th Battalion with Dover family members at "Ivanhoe", Lord Street, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire. Left to right: Irene Amelia Dover: Pte Bysh; Edwin Thomas Dover; Gertrude Amelia Dover (sister of Pte Bysh) holding Gertrude May Dover (born 1916); William Frederick Dover; James Dover and Leonard James Ralph Dover.Originally from Watford, England, Pte Bysh was a labourer from Subiaco, WA prior to enlistment and embarked with the Machine Gun Section from Fremantle on HMAT Suevic on 6 June 1916. Later promoted to Sergeant, he was killed in action in Belgium on 4 October 1917 and, having no known grave, he is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium. His brother-in-law, 3012 Driver Walter Gordon Bone, died of illness on 28 October 1918. See also P10556.002.

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