PERTH, WA. 1943-01-16. CLOSE UP OF SALUTING BASE AT THE ARMY DIVISIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS AND ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Perth
Accession Number 028961
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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PERTH, WA. 1943-01-16. CLOSE UP OF SALUTING BASE AT THE ARMY DIVISIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS AND MILITARY DISPLAY AT GLOUCESTER PARK. SIR JAMES MITCHELL, KCMG., THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, IS SEEN TAKING THE SALUTE, WHILE ON HIS RIGHT IS LIEUTENANT-GENERAL H. GORDON BENNETT, CB, CMG, DSO, VD., GENERAL-OFFICER-COMMANDING 3RD AUSTRALIAN CORPS, AND ON HIS RIGHT IS CAPTAIN E.F. BYERS, HIS AIDE-DE-CAMP. ON THE LIEUTENANT- GOVERNOR'S LEFT IS REAR-ADMIRAL CHARLES A. LOCKWOOD, U.S. NAVY, AND ANOTHER AMERICAN NAVAL OFFICER, BEHIND WHOM ARE COMMODORE C.J. POPE, RAN., AND COMMANDER PRICE, RAN. FROM THE EXTREME LEFT OF THE PICTURE ARE:- SQUADRON LEADER RUSHBROOKE, GROUP-CAPTAIN SAMPSON, MAJOR-GENERAL J.J. MURRAY, DSO, MC, VD., GENERAL-OFFICER-COMMANDING 4TH AUSTRALIAN DIVISION, AND MR. J.C. WILCOX.