Group portrait of headquarters officers, 17th Battalion taken outside a tent probably in Egypt. ...

Accession Number P05367.010
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Egypt
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

Group portrait of headquarters officers, 17th Battalion taken outside a tent probably in Egypt. Identified from left: Captain Clive Nigel Smith, MO; Major Edward Fowell Martin, SIC; Colonel Henry Arthur Goddard, Commanding Officer; Captain Arthur Balfour Douglas Brown, Adjutant; Major George Robert Short, QM. The officers embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Themistocles on 12 May 1915 and served together until 1 January 1916 when Brown was promoted to Major and served with the Anzac Provost Marshall.