Description
Studio portrait of 52500 Lance Corporal (LCpl) Stanley Albert Tilley, of Mt Gambier, SA. LCpl Tilley enlisted on 15 September 1914 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Ulysses on 22 December 1914 as a member of D Company, 14th Battalion. On 5 May 1915 he suffered shell shock and concussion at Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, and returned to Melbourne on 31 August 1915 also suffering from post typhoid fever and a nervous pain in the right shoulder. 52500 Private Tilley re-enlisted on 7 June 1918 at Buffalo, New York, USA, and served with the 2nd Draft General Service Reinforcements. He returned to Australia on 17 March 1919.
Details
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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