| Place | Europe: United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | A03641 |
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Glass original half plate negative |
| Maker |
Unknown |
| Place made | United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London |
| Date made | September 1919 |
| Conflict |
Period 1910-1919 First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Group portrait of Military Staff of Education Services AIF, taken in the backyard of 32 Grosvenor ...
Description
Group portrait of Military Staff of Education Services AIF, taken in the backyard of 32 Grosvenor Place, London. To the above note made in London is added on 9 May 1941, from Mr Bean, the following explanatory note; Identified members of the Administrative Committee of the Australian Universities are: E R Holme (Sydney), Chairman of the Committee, fifth from left in front row; H Allen (Melbourne) second from right in front row; ?Clark (Adelaide), first on right hand end of front row next to Allen. All were Honorary Captains of the AIF, Allen and Clarke had been on service during the war. Holme was to have gone with the Sydney University Company of reinforcements in 1918, which was stopped at embarkation by the armistice. He was then sent on for the Committee's work as part of the AIF Education scheme. Lieutenant L H R Gordon MC (Adelaide), who had been on service and was joined as chief assistant to the Committee and did some of its best work, is first left in second row. The head of the Education Service, after Bishop Long, was Brigadier General W Ramsay McNicol, since knighted and now Governor of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. He is seated sixth from left in front row.