Studio portrait of 204 Private Thomas Francis (Frank) Weathers, A Squadron, 9th Light Horse ...

Accession Number P05212.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia
Date made 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 204 Private Thomas Francis (Frank) Weathers, A Squadron, 9th Light Horse Regiment, who died of wounds on 15 June 1915 at the Gallipoli Peninsula. A coachman of South Australia, he enlisted in the AIF on 11 September 1914. After receiving shrapnel wounds he was hospitalised at Anzac Cove, where he subsequently died. His burial was officiated over by Chaplain Edward Makeham. This image is the left hand section of a composite image of the three Weathers brothers (P05212.001).