Portrait of 1453 Private (Pte) Harry Newhouse. Pte Newhouse enlisted in Sydney on 7 January 1915 ...

Accession Number P12279.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait of 1453 Private (Pte) Harry Newhouse. Pte Newhouse enlisted in Sydney on 7 January 1915 aged 19 years and 4 months. He served with B Company of the 4th Battalion at Gallipoli, where he became deaf in May 1915. He then caught influenza and malaria and was invalided home in 1916 and discharged from the military in 1922. His brother, 1415 Private George Newhouse was killed at Gallipoli on 2 May 1915.