Studio portrait of 7543 Private (Pte) Patrick Joseph Thompson, 11th Battalion. A farm hand from ...

Accession Number P10234.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1917
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 7543 Private (Pte) Patrick Joseph Thompson, 11th Battalion. A farm hand from Choral, WA prior to enlistment, Pte Thompson embarked with the 25th Reinforcements from Fremantle on HMAT Borda on 29 June 1917. Whilst serving in France he was wounded in action and, on 18 September 1918, aged 20, he died as a result of his wounds and was buried in the Doingt Communal Cemetery Extension, France.