Studio portrait of 1046 Trooper Archibald Lee Sweeting, 10th Light Horse Regiment. A lineman ...

Accession Number P10578.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Digital print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Western Australia
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 1046 Trooper Archibald Lee Sweeting, 10th Light Horse Regiment. A lineman prior to enlisting on 15 February 1915, he embarked at Fremantle aboard HMAT Hororata (A20) on 26 April 1915. Tpr Sweeting joined his unit in Egypt, where he developed Bright's Disease, the early medical name for nephritis, and died 17 August 1916. He was 25 years of age.