Group portrait of the officers of the 7th Company Engineers, at Leewerk Farm, near Neuve Eglise. ...

Accession Number E01601
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass transparency (positive)
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Messines, Neuve Eglise
Date made 28 December 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

Group portrait of the officers of the 7th Company Engineers, at Leewerk Farm, near Neuve Eglise. Identified from left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Frederick Fisher Christian MC and Bar; Lt Harold Conrad Renshaw MC (later 6th Field Company); Lt James Taylor Gray (later captain (Capt) with 5th Field Company); Lt Clarence William Newsome Sexton (later 6th Field Company); Lt Frederick James Deacon (later awarded MC with 5th Field Company).
Second row: Lt Thomas Andrew Lawrie (later awarded MC); Lt Alfred Leslie Polson MC (later Capt); Lt Eowyn Hugh Davies (later awarded the MC and promoted to Capt with 6th Field Company); Lt Arthur Ronald Parkinson (severely wounded 31 August 1918 with 5th Field Company); Lt Lionel Prior Elsum (later 6th Field Company); Lt Lancelot Waring Gill, (severely wounded 21 May 1918); Lt Arthur Kernaghan MM (later died of wounds in France on 1 September 1918); Lt Clifford Ernest Plant MM (later 5th Field Company); Lt Frederick Stanley Croker (later 5th Field Company and awarded MC).
Front row: Captain (Capt) Ebenezer Alexander Sanbrook, Regimental Medical Officer; Capt John Gurner Burnell MC (later awarded the French Croix de Guerre with 5th Field Company); Lt Harold Ernest Harris MC, Adjutant (later awarded the French Croix de Guerre); Major (Maj) Norman Charles Harris MC, Officer Commanding, (later awarded the DSO with 6th Field Company); Lieutenant Colonel James Montagu Christian Corlette DSO, Commander, Royal Engineers, 2nd Division (later awarded CMG and the French Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Fifth Class); Maj Robert Stewart Reid, Officer Commanding, 7th Field Company ( later awarded the DSO); Maj Eric Norman Webb MC, Officer Commanding, 7th Field Company (later awarded the DSO); Capt Louis Noedl MC (later awarded the DSO); Capt James Coghlan MC (later major and Officer Commanding 14th Field Company).

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