Studio portrait of 6012 Corporal (Cpl) Leonard John Gosper 1st, of Meranburn, NSW. Cpl Gosper ...

Accession Number P04909.022
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 6012 Corporal (Cpl) Leonard John Gosper 1st, of Meranburn, NSW. Cpl Gosper embarked from Sydney on HMAT Wiltshire on 22 August 1916. He was awarded the Military Medal (MM) on 20 December 1917. He was killed in action on 18 September 1918, aged 30, ad he has no known grave and he is memorialised at Villers Bretonneux, France. This is a photograph from Sister Imlay's collection held in the Private Records Collection at PR87/107.