H05871 Accession Number: H05871

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Portrait of 2330 Private (Pte) Thomas Herbert Belpitt, labourer, of Cunnamulla, Queensland. He enlisted in the 26th Battalion on 5 July 1915 and sailed from Brisbane on the Warilda on 5 October 1915 for Alexandria, Egypt. On 1 March 1916 he was transferred to the 12th Battalion which sailed for Marseilles on 29 March 1916 en route to the Western Front. Pte Belpitt was wounded in action near Pozieres on 24 July 1916 and died two days later in No 1 Australian Field Ambulance, near Albert, France, aged 24 years.

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Accession Number
H05871
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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