Photographic postcard: Studio portrait of 30105 Gunner (Gnr) Harold George Cope (left), 2nd ...

Accession Number P03519.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Ross, W
Place made United Kingdom: England, Wiltshire, Amesbury
Date made c 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Photographic postcard: Studio portrait of 30105 Gunner (Gnr) Harold George Cope (left), 2nd Division Ammunition Column, Australian Field Artillery; and an unidentified Australian soldier. The writing on the reverse side of the postcard reads, " To my ever true and loving wife, O V Cope. From your ever true and loving hubby, H G Cope". Gnr Cope was killed in action on 21 September 1917, he has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.

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