The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Studio portrait of 5914 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Herbert Austin West, 20th Battalion, of Leichhardt, NSW. Believed to have been born in February 1901, LCpl West enlisted on 13 May 1916 at the age of fourteen years and eight months. He claimed to be eighteen years and one month and his application to enlist claims a document recording his parents' consent was produced. He embarked on the HMAT Ceramic on 7 October 1916 and fought for eight months in the trenches where he won his promotion to Lance Corporal, aged sixteen. He was wounded on 3 May 1917 and returned to the trenches a week later. On 8 October 1917 he died of wounds in Belgium at the 2nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, one month after his sixteenth birthday. His portrait is one of a number displayed on a photo montage Honour Board made for the department store Anthony Hordern and Sons Ltd, Sydney by the returned soldier and sailor employees of the company. It commemorated 46 of the company's 48 employees who died as a result of their service in the First World War. Two brothers also served: 116 Company Quarter Master Sergeant (CQMS) Harry Walter West of the 54th Battalion, who landed at Gallipoli, and 4281 Private (Pte) Clifford Sydney West of the 56th Battalion; both survived the war.
Large collage of portraits of enlisted employees of the Sydney department store Anthony Hordern and Sons Limited who were killed in action during the First World War. The collage contains 46 photograp
Studio portrait of 1612 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Edwin Joseph King, 34th Battalion, of Croydon, NSW. LCpl King enlisted on 23 April 1915 and served initially with the 19th Battalion at Gallipoli. He di
Studio portrait of 32 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Harry Linklater, 18th Battalion, of Sydney NSW. LCpl Linklater enlisted on 27 February 1915 at Sydney and was killed in action at Gallipoli on 22 August 19
Studio portrait of 2366 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Benjamin Clark, 2nd Battalion, of Bondi, NSW. An ironmonger prior to his enlistment, LCpl Clark enlisted on 29 May 1915 and died of wounds at Pozieres, F
Studio portrait of 3038 Lance Corporal (LCpl) William Ernest Buckland, 4th Battalion, of St. Peter's NSW. An accountant, LCpl Buckland enlisted on 6 September 1915 as a member of the 7th Reinforcemen
Studio portrait of 4241 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Victor James Starr, 54th Battalion, of Alexandria, NSW. LCpl Starr enlisted on 20 February 1915 and was killed in action, at Fromelles on 19 July 1916. Th
Studio portrait of 3071 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Harry Kelly, 53rd Battalion, of Bathurst, NSW. An ironmonger prior to his enlistment on 1 July 1915, he was killed by shell fire near Corbie, France, on 6
