Outdoor portrait of members of the 16th Battalion posing with two local men and a shoe shine boy ...

Accession Number P08421.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Egypt: Cairo, Heliopolis
Date made January 1915 - April 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

Outdoor portrait of members of the 16th Battalion posing with two local men and a shoe shine boy in Zagazig Street. Identified, back row, left to right: 1324 Private (Pte) Richard (Dick) Row (later killed in action 30 April 1915); 1245 Pte Douglas Austin Byard (later killed in action 2 May 1915); 1267 Pte George Foster (later Sergeant, 48th Battalion, killed in action 15 January 1917); 1342 Pte Alfred Bowden White (returned to Australia 13 February 1917); 1329 Pte Robert James Slocombe (later killed in action 2 May 1915). Front row: 1254 Pte Alexander Charles (Alex) Cranston (later killed in action 2 May 1915); 1339 Pte Spurgeon Marshall Watson (later killed in action 7 May 1915); 1276 Pte Joseph Patrick Guilfoyle (later killed in action 1 May 1915); 1311 Pte Leslie Edward Noon (returned to Australia 29 July 1915).