Studio portrait of 6360 Private (Pte) Herbert Augustine Kelly, 20th Battalion, of Leichhardt, ...

Accession Number P02599.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Sidney Riley Studios
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made c 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
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 6360 Private (Pte) Herbert Augustine Kelly, 20th Battalion, of Leichhardt, NSW. A clerk in civilian life, Pte Kelly enlisted on 16 October 1916 and was killed in action on the Menin Road, Belgium, on 20 September 1917. This portrait is one of a number displayed on a photo montage made for the department store Anthony Hordern and Sons Ltd, Sydney by the returned soldier and sailor employees of the company. It commemorated 46 of the company's 48 employees who died as a result of their service in the First World War.