A hand coloured portrait of 676 Company Sergeant Major (CSM) William Alfred Loosemore, 25th ...

A hand coloured portrait of 676 Company Sergeant Major (CSM) William Alfred Loosemore, 25th Battalion, of Inglewood Hill, near Gympie, Queensland. CSM Loosemore was killed in action, aged 24 on 5 August 1916 at Pozieres and has no known grave. This portrait was originally framed in a group of four with portraits of three of his paternal cousins, the Auchterlonie brothers, also of Inglewood Hill. The eldest brother, Lieutenant (Lt) Archibald Vivian (Viv) Auchterlonie, 25th Battalion initially served as a sergeant with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) on Thursday Island in August 1914 before successfully applying for a commission in the AIF in early 1915. He was killed on 20 October, 1915 at Gallipoli, aged 23. His younger brother, 1702 Sergeant Bertrand Innes (Bert) Auchterlonie, 15th Battalion was killed on 8 August 1915 at Gallipoli, aged 21. The youngest, 1030 Lt Cecil Arthur Auchterlonie, also of the 25th Battalion, served at Gallipoli and was later awarded the Military Cross for actions near Villers Bretonneux in July 1918. He was awarded a Bar to his MC a month later. Lt Cecil Auchterlonie was killed in action on 10 August 1918, aged 22. The pip that the studio artist has painted on CSM Loosemore's epaulette is incorrect, although this could have been a representation of his battalion number which was a common practice early in the war.

• A hand coloured portrait of 1702 Sergeant Bertrand Innes (Bert) Auchterlonie, 15th Battalion, one ...
• A hand coloured portrait of Lieutenant (Lt) Archibald Vivian (Viv) Auchterlonie, one of the three ...
• A hand coloured portrait of 1030 Lieutenant (Lt) Cecil Arthur Auchterlonie, 25th Battalion, one ...
• Four hand coloured portraits of, left to right, 676 Company Sergeant Major (CSM) William Alfred ...