Probably Brisbane, Queensland. Studio portrait, probably taken at time of enlistment in Brisbane, ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Brisbane
Accession Number P01565.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
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

Probably Brisbane, Queensland. Studio portrait, probably taken at time of enlistment in Brisbane, of Private (later Second Lieutenant) Herbert Henry Parke Hamilton and his brother (seated) Quartermaster Sergeant William Frederick Joseph Hamilton. Second Lieutenant Hamilton died of wounds on 14 August 1918. Another brother Robert Peyton Hamilton served as a Lieutenant with the 20th Battalion, London Regiment and was killed in action on 25 September 1915 at Loos.