Lester Priest : Memorabilia
Photograph - Bay [?] : Image 1 of 1
![Image of Photograph - Bay [?] 1915](PCol-Priest-089.jpg "Photograph - Bay [?] / Arthur Francis Lester Priest")
- Title Photograph - Bay [?]
- Creator Arthur Francis Lester Priest
- Date 1915
- Image 1 of 1
- Physical Description 4 x 6 cm
- Notes Location unknown.
- Source Private collection
- Collection Name Diary and memorabilia, 1915
- Collection Description Memorabilia included with a diary kept by Arthur Francis Lester Priest (1893-1915); a letter, newspaper clippings, postcard and photograph.
- Parent Collection Description Arthur Francis Lester Priest served from 1914 to August 1915. Service number: 6/1695. Lester Priest was killed at Gallipoli on 8 August 1915, and is remembered on the Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey. Lester Priest was mistakenly reported killed in June 1915, but then reported wounded several weeks later. The Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser reported on his death in August in November 1915; "his relatives were only told he had been wounded a second time".
- File Reference PCol-Priest-089
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