Studio portrait of 5152 Private Arnold Edgar Leabeater, 4th (later 56th) Battalion of Parramatta, ...

Accession Number P08624.071
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Photomechanical print
Maker Cumberland
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made 1920
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 5152 Private Arnold Edgar Leabeater, 4th (later 56th) Battalion of Parramatta, NSW. A carter prior to enlisting, he embarked from Sydney aboard the SS Makarini on 1 April 1916. He was killed in action in France on 22 July 1918 while detailed with the Patrol School, aged 21. He is buried in the Ribemont Communal Cemetery Extension, France.