Images of 140 Trooper Roy Henry Solomon ROH and 513 Trooper Cecil Solomon

Accession Number AWM2020.740.2
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Place made Egypt: Cairo, Ghezireh
Date made March 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

Two images related to brothers 513 Trooper Cecil Solomon, embarked with the 7th Australian Light Horse Regiment and 140 Trooper Roy Henry Solomon with the 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment, both butchers prior to enlistment, in December 1914. Cecil transferred to the 56th Battalion in October 1916 and returned to Australia in December 1918. On 30 June 1915, Roy Henry Solomon died at sea aboard HMHS Sicilia, of wounds received in the Dardanelles.