Outdoor portrait of NX1600 Corporal (Cpl) Herbert Leslie (Herb) McLeod, 2/2 Battalion, of ...

Place Middle East: British Mandate of Palestine, Palestine
Accession Number P03269.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Place made British Mandate of Palestine: Tel Aviv
Date made c 1940
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoor portrait of NX1600 Corporal (Cpl) Herbert Leslie (Herb) McLeod, 2/2 Battalion, of Bonville, NSW. Cpl McLeod is having his shoes shined by a local boy. Cpl McLeod enlisted on 2 November 1939 and saw service in the Middle East. He was killed in action in Libya on 3 January 1941, aged 34.