Outdoor portrait of 6305 Acting Corporal Maurice Francis Reid Mullaly, B Company, Depot ...

Accession Number P10972.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made 11 February 1916-7 March 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

Outdoor portrait of 6305 Acting Corporal Maurice Francis Reid Mullaly, B Company, Depot Battalion, Casula NSW. A customs clerk from Sydney, NSW, Mullaly enlisted as a private in the 13th Battalion. He failed the visual acuity test and was discharged medically unfit on 30 May 1916. In June he re-enlisted and embarked with the 20th Reinforcements, 2nd Battalion from Sydney on HMAT Euripides on 9 September 1916. He died of wounds at the 3rd Casualty Clearing Station, France, on 15 April 1917.