Informal portrait of two 1st Battalion officers, both of whom later attained the rank of major, ...

Accession Number C02136
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Date made c 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

Informal portrait of two 1st Battalion officers, both of whom later attained the rank of major, and were killed in action during the third battle of Ypres in the autumn of 1917. Identified left to right: Lieutenant John Bruce Buchanan, who died on 12 October 1917; Lieutenant Philip Llewellyn Howell-Price, who later won the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross, and died on 4 October 1917.