Studio portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) David Knight, 33rd Battalion, of Lakemba, NSW. Lt Knight ...

Accession Number P02599.018
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Sidney Riley Studios
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made c 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
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 Lieutenant (Lt) David Knight, 33rd Battalion, of Lakemba, NSW. Lt Knight enlisted on 1 February 1916 and died of wounds in France on 8 May 1918. This portrait is one of a number displayed on a photo montage Honour Board made for the department store Anthony Hordern and Sons Ltd, Sydney by the returned soldier and sailor employees of the company. It commemorated 46 of the company's 48 employees who died as a result of their service in the First World War.