Portrait of 2832 Robert Errick Keillor

Place Europe: Belgium, Wallonie, Hainaut, Warneton
Accession Number AWM2018.1125.2
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Murray
Place made Australia: Queensland, Brisbane
Date made September 1916 - December 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 2832 Private (Pte) Robert Errick Keillor, 6th Reinforcements, 41st Battalion. A selector of Caboolture, Queensland, Pte Keillor embarked from Sydney on the HMAT Demothesnes 22 December 1916.In July 1917, the 41st Battalion was stationed at Warneton, Belgium. On 31 July 1917, Pte Keillor and Corporal Barney William Rickwood were returning from a night time patrol when they passed a soldier who was carrying a bag of explosives. A bomb fell out of the bag and exploded killing Pte Keillor. Lance Corporal Alfred Edwin Eccles witnessed the scene, noting that Pte Keillor “was blown right out of the trench, being practically killed instantaneously.”