Studio portrait of 3455 Private (Pte) Harry Turner, 3rd Battalion (later 53rd Battalion). A ...

Accession Number P11334.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital file TIFF
Maker Dore Studios
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made c 1915
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 3455 Private (Pte) Harry Turner, 3rd Battalion (later 53rd Battalion). A sawyer from Petersham, New South Wales, Harry Turner enlisted with his younger brother 3462A Pte Arthur Turner, and they embarked with the 11th Reinforcements from Sydney on 2 November 1915 aboard HMAT Euripides (A14) for Egypt. In mid-February 1916 they were both transferred to the 53rd Battalion which relocated to the Western Front, France, in late June 1916. Both brothers were initially reported missing in action and following a Court of Inquiry were deemed to have been killed in action on 19 July 1916 at Fromelles, France. They have no known grave and they are commemorated on the V.C. Corner Australian Cemetery and Memorial, Fromelles, France. Pte Harry Turner was aged 22 years. (See also P11334.001)