Group portrait of officers, many from the 13th Infantry Battalion, annotated "Aerodrome Camp". ...

Place Africa: Egypt, Cairo, Heliopolis
Accession Number P01150.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Egypt: Cairo, Heliopolis, Egypt: Cairo, Heliopolis
Date made 1 April 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

Group portrait of officers, many from the 13th Infantry Battalion, annotated "Aerodrome Camp". Some in this group died at Gallipoli. Left to right: back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Clive Boyer Hopkins (killed in action 20 July 1916), Lt F G Wilson, Lt Hubert Hartnell-Sinclair (died of wounds 9 August 1915), Lt Horace James Salier, Lt Francis George Grainger, Lt Douglas Marks, Lt George Webster Binnie (killed in action 3 May 1915), Lt Harold Thomas Watkins (killed in action 25 April 1915), Lt Hugh O Pulling, Lt Robert Harold Crow (killed in action 3 May 1915). Middle row: Lt (later Captain) George Guyatt Gardiner, Lt Kenneth Alexander MacLeod (killed in action 3 May 1915), Captain (Capt) Joseph Edward Lee, Lt Francis Vere Thompson QM, Capt Raymond Gordon Emmes Kellick, Chaplain Frederick William Wray, Capt Harold Norton Russell, Capt J Simpson, Lt Francis Horatio Faddy (killed in action 3 May 1915), Capt Cyril Shellshear, AAMC, Lt Stanley Llewellyn Perry, Lt Frank Smith. Front row (all seated): Capt William Osmond Brache, Capt (later Major) Robert Thomas Hunt, Lt (later Major) Reginald George Legge DSO MC, Capt (later Lieutenant Colonel) James Murdoch Archer Durrant (Adjutant 13th Battalion), Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Granville John Burnage, Major (Maj) Walter Whyte Ellis (killed in action 3 May 1915), Capt Sydney Charles Edgar Herring, Capt William Alfred Forsythe. Also shown is the signature of Lt Barton.