Collection related to the 2/15th Battalion

Group portrait of the officers of 2/15th Australian Infantry Battalion. Identified back row, left to right: QX6200 Lieutenant (Lt) Boyd Williams; Lt Greg Smith; QX6238 Lt Sydney Perry Newcomb; QX6229 Lt Arthur Leslie MacDonald; QX6227 Lt Douglas Dale Whalley; QX6195 Lt Wallace Archibald Ferguson; QX6242 Lt Maurice Harland; QX6243 Lt William Angus; QX6226 Lt Lennard Snell and QX6222 Captain (Capt) Bruce Dowsett Strange. Middle row, left to right: QX6252 Lt Geoffrey Emerson Morrison; QX6274 Lt Ross Gordon Jenkinson; QX6221 Captain Roderick Albert Suthers; QX6224 Lt Malcom Ryrie Stuart; QX6230 Lt Eric McNaughton Christie; QX6172 Capt Andrew Skinner; QX6253 Capt Ronald James Hoy; QX6171 Lt Edward Fitzmaurice Luther; QX 6313 Lt Wilton Winstanley Cobb; QX6241 Lt Douglas Stannard Cubitt; QX6228 Lt Tasman Peter Davies and QX6225 Lt Frederick Lance Bode. Front row, left to right: Reverend C.S Arkel; QX6285 Capt Sidney Topham; QX6260 Major Ronald Charles Rosier; QX6198 Major Charles Newton Barton; QX6175 Lieutenant Colonel Robert Francis (Commanding Officer); Capt Neil Currie; QX6219 Capt Alexander Cullen Ralston; Capt Ted Peek and Lieutenant Ron Hart. Lt Morrison was killed in action at Tobruk on 21 June 1941, as was Lt Cubitt 14 April 1941. Lt Bode (later Capt Bode MC) was killed in action at El Alamein on 1 September 1942 as was Lt Cobb (later Captain Cobb MC & Bar) on 23 October 1942. Lt Christie (later Capt Christie) was killed in action in New Guinea on 24 September 1943. Capt Strange (later Major Strange DSO) died in Australia of unknown causes on 20 September 1944.