P08624.259 Accession Number: P08624.259

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Studio portrait of 3122 Acting Sergeant (later Private) John Bendict Hoban, 19th Battalion of Auburn, NSW. A clerk prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Suevic (A29) on 20 December 1915. He was killed in action by a sniper near Fleurs, France on 24 December 1916, aged 29. He has no known grave and is remembered with honour on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.

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Accession Number
P08624.259
Maker
Cumberland
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Photomechanical print
Date Made
1920
Place Made
Whole/Part
Child
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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