H05998 Accession Number: H05998

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Studio portrait of 1098 Corporal (Cpl) Ernest Frederick Mayo. A 26 year old labourer from Queanbeyan, NSW prior to enlistment, Cpl Mayo embarked with the rank of Private with ‘C’ Company 13th Battalion from Melbourne on HMAT Ulysses on 22 December 1914. Later while serving at Gallipoli he was wounded in the head and invalided to Lemnos. Subsequently promoted to Corporal he was hospitalised suffering from bronchitis. After recovering he was appointed as Temporary Sergeant and on 11 April 1917 he was killed in action and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial. His brother, 5402 Private John Charles Mayo was killed in action on 15 May 1917. See H05999.

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Accession Number
H05998
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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