Informal group portrait probably of the members of the Course of instruction in chemical warfare ...

Informal group portrait probably of the members of the Course of instruction in chemical warfare for physiologists. Identified left to right: Lieutenant (Lt) Roland Miller (United States (US) Medical Corp); unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; unidentified; Major (Maj) F S Gorrill, (Porton, UK) instructor; Dr A H (Hugh) Ennor; unidentified; Dr John (Jack) Legge (holding a pipe); Lt Roland Miller (United States Medical Corp); Surgeon Lieutenant Trevor Mclean (RAN). The members of the course also included NX103428 Major Andrew Arthur Abbie, Australian Army Medical Corps, (AAMC); probably VX28211 Captain Peter James Parsons (AAMC); Flight Lieutenant Don Hamilton; Sergeant Paul (RAAF); Dr E R Trethewie and Dr A B Corkhill. The three civilian physiologists, Dr Ennor, Dr Legge and Dr Trethewie, were attached to the Department of Munitions, Maribyrnong, Vic The course included attending an existing gas training school for a week, intensive work in human pathology, tours of selected munitions works and field trials of new military chemical warfare Companies. Maj Gorrill's chemical warfare physiology lectures were largely based on information from First World War medical officers and from scientistic investigation undertaken at Porton Down, and from chemical warfare research done by the US Army at the Chemical Warfare Service (CWS) Edgeworth Arsenal, Maryland, USA.