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Item IDP10550.040
PhotographerThuillier, Louis
Place madeFrance: Picardie, Somme, Vignacourt
Date Madec November 1916
Copyright holderAustralian Capital Equity Pty Ltd
CollectionPhotograph
Credit lineCourtesy Kerry Stokes Collection, the Louis and Antoinette Thuillier Collection
Description Group portrait of officers of the 5th Battalion. Identified are (back row, left to right): 497 Lieutenant (Lt) Harold Maurice Griffiths MC from Colac, Victoria; Lt John William Dwyer from Brunswick, Victoria. Front row: Captain (Cpt) Thomas Karran Maltby from Yarraville, Victoria; Cpt Eric George de Trembley Permezel MC from Melbourne, Victoria; and 703 Lt George Leslie Makin from Melbourne, Victoria. (See also P10550.217 and P10550.243)

From the Thuillier collection of glass plate negatives. Taken by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier in Vignacourt, France during the period 1916 to 1918.

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Kathleen Scanlan says:

Lt. G.l. Makin is my uncle. my mother ruby was his sister. we have had this pHoto on tthe wall in our home for as longas i can remember.. uncle les was wounded in actio and died two mmonths before armistice. he was never forgotten. my mother always listened to the anzac march in melbourne and cried.

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