"Frank Connor"

Place Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Kimberley
Accession Number P08151.033.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Western Australia, Wyndham
Date made 1912-1915
Conflict Period 1910-1919
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Francis "Frank" Connor, politician and director of the pastoralist firm Connor, Doherty & Durack Ltd, sits astride his horse with a cigar in his right hand. One of a series of photographs either taken or collected by Roy Cecil Phillipps (later Squadron Leader R.C Phillipps MC & Bar DFC) when employed by the pastoralist firm Connor, Doherty & Durack Ltd in the Kimberley region of Western Australia from 1912 until his enlistment in the AIF in April 1915. The photographs were sent to his mother in Perth, Mrs Cecil R. Phillipps, who arranged them in an album and wrote the accompanying captions. See image at P08151.033