Studio portrait of Malcolm James Walter Hamilton, a grazier from Banana, Queensland. In February ...

Accession Number P10721.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Stephens
Place made Australia: Queensland, Toowoomba
Date made 1911-1916
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 Malcolm James Walter Hamilton, a grazier from Banana, Queensland. In February 1916 he enlisted as 1927 Private (Pte) Hamilton with the 41st Battalion. Pte Hamilton had reached the rank of sergeant before he was killed in action near Messines, Belgium on 3 August 1917, aged 25. The battalion suffered 25 casualties that day, whilst beating off two counter attacks by the enemy.