Studio portrait of 2700 Private (Pte) Francis Henry Murphy, 8th Australian Machine Gun Company, ...

Accession Number P12379.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Colour - Print hand-coloured black & white
Maker Unknown
Date made c 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 2700 Private (Pte) Francis Henry Murphy, 8th Australian Machine Gun Company, of Marrickville, NSW. A labourer prior to enlistment, Pte Murphy embarked with the 5th Reinforcements from Sydney aboard HMAT Nestor (A71) on 9 April 1916. He was killed in action on 25 September 1917 in Belgium.