Informal group portrait of the surviving members of the 16th Battalion at Lemnos Island. After 12 ...

Accession Number P05948.003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Greece: Aegean Islands, Lemnos
Date made 17 October 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Informal group portrait of the surviving members of the 16th Battalion at Lemnos Island. After 12 months service at Gallipoli, only eight officers and 109 men remained of the original 16th Battalion; of these only 20 had not been wounded. Identified officers in the front row are, from left to right: 1035 Colour Sergeant Arthur Edge; Lieutenant (Lt) Parker; Gunning; Black; Pope; Lt Ross Harwood; 2nd Lt Alexander Peter Imlay; Lt Adams.

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