Studio portrait of 69 Private (Pte) James Reynolds Hickey, 3rd Division Cyclist Battalion. A ...

Accession Number H06076
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Studio portrait of 69 Private (Pte) James Reynolds Hickey, 3rd Division Cyclist Battalion. A labourer from Brinkworth, SA prior to enlistment, Pte Hickey embarked from Sydney on HMAT Themistocles on 18 May 1916. Later transferring to the 12th Infantry Battalion he was wounded in action and, on 15 April 1917, he was killed in action and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial.