Mounted Portrait Photo of H S Thrum

Accession Number P10656.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Unknown
Date made 1916-1917
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 918 Private (Pte) Harry Shepherdson Thrum, 44th Battalion from Subiaco, Western Australia. Prior to enlisting on 20 January 1916, he was working as a clerk and had served for five years in the militia with the 86th Infantry (West Australian Rifles). He embarked for overseas with the Machine Gun Section from Fremantle, Western Australia on 6 June 1916 aboard HMAT Suevic (A29). Following further training in England, he proceeded to France in November 1916. After being appointed Lance Sergeant on 11 September 1917, he was promoted to Sergeant (Sgt) two weeks later. Sgt Thrum was killed in action on 4 October 1917 at Poperinghe, Belgium and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres, Belgium with others who have no known grave. His brother, 257 Pte Norman Horatio Thrum was slightly wounded at Gallipoli and then taken ill, hospitalised in Egypt, returned to Australia in July 1915 and discharged medically unfit for further service.

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