Studio portrait of 3161 Private Lionel Sidney Roderick McDonald, 2nd Battalion. A railway porter ...

Accession Number P05580.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Crown Studios
Place made Australia: New South Wales
Date made c 1915
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 3161 Private Lionel Sidney Roderick McDonald, 2nd Battalion. A railway porter of Glen Innes, New South Wales, he enlisted on 5 August 1915 and embarked from Sydney with the 10th Reinforcements aboard HMAT Warilda on 8 October 1915. He was killed in action on 19 July 1916 at Fleurbaix, France, aged 29, whilst serving with the 54th Battlalion.