Accession Number | H06618 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
Date made | c 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Studio portrait of 1926 Private (Pte) Archibald Cooper, 6th Battalion. A wool classer of ...
Description
Studio portrait of 1926 Private (Pte) Archibald Cooper, 6th Battalion. A wool classer of Prahran, Victoria, he enlisted on 11 January 1915 and sailed from Melbourne with the 5th Reinforcements aboard HMAT Hororata, on 17 April 1915. He was killed in action on 7 August 1915, aged 23, in front of Steele's Post and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula. (Same photograph as P03483.007)