Studio portrait of 7591 Private Robert Miller (Miller) Leslie, 51st Battalion. A shipping clerk ...

Accession Number H06610
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made United Kingdom: England, Lancashire, Ribble Valley, Clitheroe
Date made c March 1918
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 7591 Private Robert Miller (Miller) Leslie, 51st Battalion. A shipping clerk of Fremantle, WA. Private Miller was killed in action at Villers-Bretonneux, 24 April 1918, aged 22. The verso is inscribed 'To Mother & Father/ with true love/ from/ Miller/ 17/3/18. In response to a call for portraits of those who died as a result of service, Mrs Miller submitted this portrait to the Department of Defence as a gift to a future war museum [Australian War Memorial].