Patriotic souvenir postcard featuring a portrait of 298 Private (Pte) Leslie Trezise, 24th ...

Accession Number P08391.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Digital file
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria
Date made c May 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Patriotic souvenir postcard featuring a portrait of 298 Private (Pte) Leslie Trezise, 24th Battalion. An apprentice bicycle fitter prior to enlistment, he embarked with A Company from Melbourne aboard HMAT Euripides on 10 May 1915. While serving in France, Pte Trezise was killed in action on 14 March 1917, aged 20, and buried at Adanac Military Cemetery, France.