Outdoor group portrait of Other Ranks of HQ AIF Middle East at Heliopolis racecourse. Records ...

Outdoor group portrait of Other Ranks of HQ AIF Middle East at Heliopolis racecourse. Records show the soldiers numbered from 1 to 128 but there is no indication as to where the numbers commence. Identified personnel are: 1. VX18804 Martin Frederick Shannon (later Staff Sergeant (S Sgt)); 2. SX2409 Jack Aubrey Day (later Warrant Officer Class 1 (WO1)); 3. VX16244 Donald William Eldridge (later Sergeant (Sgt)); 4. NX14945 Roderick James Searle (later Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2)); 5. NX13942 Gunner (Gnr) David Llewellyn Narbet; 6. NX1617 Reginald George Dark (later Lance Sergeant (L Sgt)); 7. SX5157 Mervyn Arthur Hay (later Sgt); 8. QX9068 Private (Pte) William James Dedman; 9. NX53794 Pte Leonard Wanless; 10. WX6922 Pte Herbert Bloomfield; 11. NX15108 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) John Cecil Buckley, (later killed in action in New Guinea on 20 Oct 1943); 12. VX40830 Pte Herbert Arthur Halls; 13. VX27614 Garth Fraser Reese-Hackford (later Captain (Capt)); 14. SX5759 Pte Herbert Edward Seebohm; 15. WX5448 Pte Ken Morrison Maley; 16. VX37270 Pte Reginald Nicholas Penglase; 17. VX8962 Pte Frederick Arthur Gilmore; 18. TX1716 Francis Ridgeway Musson (later Capt); 19. VX7579 (32386) Cpl Raymond James McNamara; 20. WX6811 (59276) Charles Francis Platell (later S Sgt); 21. VX21440 Pte Thomas Patrick Joseph Malcolm; 22. VX47539 Herbert Monro (later WO1); 23. VX34242 Donald Austin (later Sgt); 24. VX40745 Cpl George Wallace Knox; 25. WX3060 Pte William Tennent; 26. VX11791 Leo Aloysius Cahill (later L Sgt); 27. QX9263 Cpl John Hurst William Willsher; 28. VX41710 Geoffrey Simon Patience (later Sgt); 29. WX2223 Pte William Edward Brooks; 30. NX6362 L Cpl Herbert Dransfield; 31. VX3917 Craftsman Ernest Arthur Lalor; 32. VX44428 Pte Geoffrey Frederick Atkins; 33. NX29728 Albert James Eli Windsor (later Lieutenant (Lt)); 34. VX3878 Pte Leslie William Griffiths; 35. WX2929 Pte Victor John Crack; 36. NX68561 Cpl William Swebleses McAuliffe; 37. NX3090 James Crawford Hunter (later WO 2); 38. VX15606 Lloyd George Matters (later S Sgt); 39. VX22102 Colin James Keith McGregor (later S Sgt); 40. WX6109 (59192) Vivian Charles Davy (later S Sgt); 41 NX32278 Douglas Lawrence Cohen (later Lt); 42. WX1093 Pte Martin Francis Houlahan; 43. VX28455 Pte Henry Ousley; 44. NX47213 Pte Gordon William James Kew; 45. NX36792 Pte Neil John Reberger; 46. NX15487 (N196120) Cpl Ernest Sykes Thornton; 47. VX17109 L Cpl Gene Rae; 48. unknown; 49. NX29143 Pte Roy Mervyn Child; 50. WX1880 Pte Ronald Keith Anderson; 51. VX10209 Richard James Green (later Sgt); 52. VX34412 Cpl Ronald James Ives; 53. SX8168 Pte Robert George Henderson; 54. NX28244 Cpl John Douglas Davies; 55. VX6241 Pte Joseph Henry Dorain; 56. NX7923 Cpl Thomas McAuley; 57. NX58039 Richard Walter Harding Browne (later S Sgt); 58. NX15063 Gunner (Gnr) Geoffrey Edward Davis; 59. VX15731 Francis Keith Scott (later Lt); 60. WX6936 Pte George Frederick Budd; 61. SX5656 John Kirkpatrick Cornish (later Lt); 62. VX15360 Cpl Ormond Darling; 63. NX15526 Pte Keith Tasman Scoles; 64. NX29755 Cpl David Keith Gattenhoff; 65. QX17340 Pte John William Chambers; 66. VX9545 Cpl Ernest John Wilson; 67. NX22748 Albert Keith Smith (later Lt); 68. NX7871 Ernest Edward Clempson (later Sgt); 69. VX3445 Albert Brash (later Sgt); 70. VX24776 Cpl Frederick Neil Pugsley (later Lt); 71. VX10175 Gnr Francis Gerald Hodgins; 72. SX274 Pte Albert John Wilson; 73. NX11338 Leonard Arthur Mears (later Sgt); 74. WX7294 H R H Price; 75. NX33751 Pte Arol Jack Piercy; 76. NX4903 J. H. Spence;
77. NX14291 (21713) William Arthur Crook (later WO2); 78. VX47142 Herbert Henry Simpson (later WO1); 79. VX5541 Cpl Allan Leslie Lawson; 80. VX6872 Pte Leo Francis Callaghan; 81. NX18136 Pte James Alexander Innes; 82. VX10614 Pte Stanley John Bratt; 83. NX6501 Pte Noel Oscar Halgren; 84. VX4847 Sgt Frederick Roy McGregor; 85. WX4151 Driver William Burbridge;
86. NX19034 Cpl Douglas Robertson; 87. unknown; 88. VX27760 Cpl William James Wallace; 89. WX2608 Gnr James Robert Lofthouse; 90. VX8401 Cpl John Joseph Gill; 91. SX5013 Norman Dudley Buttfield (later WO2); 92. NX52593 Sapper Charles William John Fraser; 93. NX13452 Pte Henry Leslie Rydquist; 94. SX4743 Murray Alan Buttfield (later Lt); 95. QX179 Eric Stanley Hebden (later L Sgt); 96. WX4343 Gnr Bernard John Anzac Mill; 97. NX14095 Arthur Thomas Gregory (later Sgt); 98. NX1957 Cyril Douglas Mitchell (later Sgt); 99. VX25670 Andrew Gray Blyth Staley (later Capt); 100. VX58880 Pte Norman Charles Halls; 101. NX9938 Pte Leslie Roland Thompson; 102. unknown; 103. VX20228 Henry Austin McKay (later S Sgt); 104. WX5819 Leopold Cleggett (later Lt);
105. QX4929 (19159) Eric Stewart Farnsworth (later Sgt); 106. WX3977 Signalman Keith Mervyn Bateman; 107. unknown; 108. WX579 Dvr Robert William Edwards; 109. VX14702 Pte James Campbell Bradley; 110. unknown; 111. VX15339 Pte Reginald James Smith; 112. VX6864 James Robert Allen Russell (later L Cpl); 113. VX12389 Pte Frank McLean; 114. NX5477 Pte Malcolm Robert Victor McKenzie; 115. VX2333 William Ballantyne Allan (later L Sgt); 116. VX38609 (V82439) Cpl Samuel Dodds; 117. VX8869 Dvr Clive Robert Bannister; 118. NX6357 Pte Leslie Athol Clegg; 119. unknown; 120. unknown; 121. NX22750 Lionel Byron George Johnstone (later Sgt); 122. VX44826 WO2 Gerald Bloink; 123. unknown; 124. NX6071 Cpl James Norman Dent; 125. NX11267 Pte Roderick MacDonald; 126. unknown; 127. VX15015 Pte David Claude Fraser; 128. NX45486 Thomas Hayes (later WO1).