| Accession Number | C01914 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Glass original half plate negative |
| Maker |
Unknown |
| Place made | United Kingdom: England, Dorset, Wareham |
| Date made | June 1917 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
A group of officers of the 61st Battalion having lunch by the roadside during a route march in ...
Description
A group of officers of the 61st Battalion having lunch by the roadside during a route march in southern England. Identified left to right (standing, back row): Lieutenant (Lt) Walker; Chaplain the Reverend Thomas McVittie, holding a book. Seated or reclining, middle row: Lt Keith Bayley; Major George Sydney Cook; unidentified; unidentified; Captain (Capt) Claude Esdaile Prior; Capt Arthur Havelock Hirst; Lt Eric St Julian Pearce; Lt Wilfred Hardley; Lt Theodore Philip Grace; Lt Sebit (?), not found in the Nominal Roll or the Army List; Capt Frederick William Roberts, standing far right. Reclining, front row: Lt Alfred Gordon Farleigh, who was later awarded the Military Cross (MC) and was killed in action on 22 August 1918; Capt Bernard Brooks Blomfield, Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC); Lt Colonel William Kenneth Seaforth MacKenzie, DSO.