Studio portrait of 583 Corporal (Cpl) Frederick William Hodson, 44th Battalion, of Kurrawang, WA ...

Accession Number P03629.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Foulds & Hibberd Studio
Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, Merseyside, Liverpool
Date made c 1916
Conflict 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 583 Corporal (Cpl) Frederick William Hodson, 44th Battalion, of Kurrawang, WA (seated), with his friend Joe Miller (probably 602 Private Joseph Miller who enlisted on 1 February 1916 and returned to Australia on 23 September 1918) . Born in Formby, Lancashire, England, Cpl Hodson enlisted on 15 January 1916 and was killed in action on 10 June 1917 near Messines. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, Belgium.

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