P06534.001 Accession Number: P06534.001

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Studio portrait of Gunner (Gnr) Humphrey William Thomas, 4th Field Artillery Brigage, with three members of his family. A native of Hawthorn, Victoria, Gnr Thomas worked as a civil servant with the Department of Works and Railways prior to enlisting on 9 July 1915. He embarked for service overseas from Melbourne with the 11th Battery aboard HMAT Wiltshire on 18 November 1915. On 8 May 1917, Gnr Thomas was killed in action at Bullecourt, France, aged 25.

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Accession Number
P06534.001
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Digital print
Date Made
c 1915
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor D Gill
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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