Outdoors portrait of Morton McLeod Allan 12th Battalion of West Perth WA . A bank clerk prior ...

Accession Number H00118
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
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

Outdoors portrait of Morton McLeod Allan 12th Battalion of West Perth WA . A bank clerk prior to his enlistment on 3 February 1915 he embarked from Adelaide on 1 April 1915 on board HMAT Port Lincoln. Allan died on 20 September 1917 aged 23, the son of Reverend Thomas and Emma Allan of Perth WA and is memorialised at the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.