Portrait of May Reynell (nee Byard) who was the originator of the League of Loyal Women and the ...

Accession Number H16377
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Warner, Dorothy
Place made Australia: South Australia, Kapunda
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Portrait of May Reynell (nee Byard) who was the originator of the League of Loyal Women and the Battalion Clubs in South Australia. For some months she also ran, at her own expense, a tea house for AIF Light Horsemen at Heliopolis, Egypt. Her husband Lieutenant-Colonel Carew Reynell 9th Australian Light Horse Regiment, was killed in action on 28 August 1915. (Donor A.W. Bazley)

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