Studio portrait of 1155 Private (Pte) Claude Hastings Kerrison, 36th Battalion. A labourer from ...

Accession Number P10665.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made 1916-1918
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 1155 Private (Pte) Claude Hastings Kerrison, 36th Battalion. A labourer from Cundle, NSW prior to enlistment, Pte Kerrison embarked with D Company from Sydney on HMAT Beltana on 13 May 1916. Previously wounded in action on two separate occasions, he was wounded for a third time and succumbed to his wounds on 13 April 1918. He is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.