Informal portrait of officers and other ranks at the clean up after Christmas dinner. Identified, ...

Accession Number P03332.016
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Queensland, North Queensland, Innisfail
Date made 25 December 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of officers and other ranks at the clean up after Christmas dinner. Identified, back row, left to right: David Bland; Clifford Purkis (chemist, Royal Army Medical Corps, (RAMC)); unidentified; Flight Lieutenant R Taylor; Private Murphy. Front row: VF510957 Corporal Carmel Elizabeth Diviny; Jack Legge (wearing an apron holding a dish); 'Tex' Morton (cook); Sergeant Chapman (head cook); VF345698 Lance Corporal Mary Lucy Brady (cook); V387912 Sergeant Olive Lucas (physiology - Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS)); V503228 Private Maisie Gertrude Dart (behind). All were members of the Australian Chemical Warfare Research and Experimental Section, later known as the 1st Field Trials Company.