Group portrait of officers of the 7th Battalion on the Aegean island of Lemnos. Most of these ...

Accession Number C01190
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Greece: Aegean Islands, Lemnos, Sarpion
Date made 25 December 1915
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 officers of the 7th Battalion on the Aegean island of Lemnos. Most of these officers were still with the Battalion on Christmas Day 1917. The two on each end of the front row, and the two in the middle of the back row, are wearing padded winter Service Dress caps. Identified left to right (back row): Captain (Capt) Charles Aloysius Denehy; Reverend Joseph Hearn, Chaplain 3rd Class; Lieutenant (Lt) Smith; possibly Lt Wilfred Ledlie Heron. Front row: Lt Geoffrey Gordon McCrae (later killed in action on 19 July 1916) ; Capt Alfred Jackson; Capt Herbert Thomas Christoph Layh.