Informal portrait of 4189 Private (Pte) Louis Thomas Parsons, 27th Battalion, seated in a ...

Accession Number P12295.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Hopetoun Studio
Place made Ceylon: Colombo
Date made 24 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

Informal portrait of 4189 Private (Pte) Louis Thomas Parsons, 27th Battalion, seated in a rickshaw. A police constable from Adelaide, SA prior to enlistment, Pte Parsons embarked with the 10th Reinforcements from Adelaide on RMS Mongolia on 9 March 1916. Following his promotion to Lance Corporal he was listed as missing in action. A subsequent court of enquiry determined that he had been killed in action on 5 November 1916. Having no known grave, he is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux memorial, France. A sign at the base of the wheel reads "Hopetoun Studio".