View Full-Size Image

 

Studio portrait of 356 Corporal (Cpl) Sidney George Masters, B Squadron, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, of Allora, Qld. Prior to enlistment on 21 August 1914, Cpl Masters served with the 3rd (Darling Downs) Light Horse Regiment, Citizens Military Forces. He embarked from Brisbane aboard HMAT Star of England on 24 September 1914 and served at the Gallipoli Peninsula before being invalided home suffering from trench fever. After two months recuperation he returned to duty and embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Karroo with the 17th Reinforcements, 2nd Light Horse, on 5 May 1916. Cpl Masters was killed in action on 14 July 1918 at 'The Bluff' Abu Tellul, Palestine.