Darge Photographic Company collection of negatives

Outdoor group portrait of members of A Company, 5th Battalion. Identified, eighth from left, front row, is 25 Company Sergeant Major (CSM) William Neilson of St Kilda, Vic (originally of Muirkirk, Scotland). Later promoted to Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) he was killed in action, aged 50, on 19 May 1915 at the Gallipoli peninsula. He had previously served nine years with the Scottish Borderers in India and in the Boer War with the Marquis of Tullibardine's Scottish Horse. One of the buglers is most likely 31 Bugler Norman Leslie Hansen (originally a butcher of Williamstown, Vic). Other people in this company will be listed on the First World War Embarkation Rolls on the AWM website. This will indicate the likely names of people in this photograph, but not their position.