c.1886. Studio portrait of 105 Private John Thornton and his wife Sarah Thornton. John Thornton, ...

Place Africa: Sudan
Accession Number P02054.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Sudan, 1885
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

c.1886. Studio portrait of 105 Private John Thornton and his wife Sarah Thornton. John Thornton, who migrated from Yorkshire to NSW in the late 1870s, served in B Company or D Company of the New South Wales contingent to Sudan, the first armed force raised by a British colony and despatched overseas.

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