Studio portrait of Major Herbert Bowen Hamlin DSO, 10th Australian Light Horse, of Narrogin, WA ...

Accession Number H00050A
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker G Lekegian & Co.
Place made Egypt: Cairo
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 Major Herbert Bowen Hamlin DSO, 10th Australian Light Horse, of Narrogin, WA (originally of Christchurch, New Zealand). A surveyor's assistant prior to his enlistment on 28 October 1914, he embarked from Fremantle on HMAT Surada on 17 February 1915. Hamlin died of pericarditis on 30 May 1919.