Studio portrait of 502 Gunner (Gnr) Claude Leopold Bourchier, Siege Artillery Brigade of Glebe, ...

Accession Number H01470
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Studio portrait of 502 Gunner (Gnr) Claude Leopold Bourchier, Siege Artillery Brigade of Glebe, NSW. A rubber worker prior to his enlistment on 1 July 1915 he embarked from Sydney on board HMAT Warilda on 8 November 1915. The son of Charles Leslie and Mary Catherine Bourchier of Oatley, NSW, Gnr Bourchier was killed in action on 11 July 1917 age 23 years, he is memorialised at Panel 19, Belgium 24 Coxyde Military Cemetery.

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