Group portrait of C Squadron, Engineer Officers School of Instruction. Back row, left to right: ...

Accession Number P09176.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Cooper & Robbins
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Moore Park
Date made June 1916
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 C Squadron, Engineer Officers School of Instruction. Back row, left to right: Sergeant (Sgt) Maurice Wilson (killed in action 8 October 1917); Sgt Henry David Hill; Sgt John Henry Bate; Sgt Daniel Stern Mulley; Sgt Robert John Stanley Finlayson (died of accidental injuries 25 June 1917); Sgt George Lawrence Bullen (awarded MM in 1918); Sgt Ronald Melville Scott; Sgt Gwyndwr David Evans (killed in action 25 April 1917); Sgt Loyal Harley Finch and Sgt Francis Hammond. Third row: Thomas Bela Usher Bowling (awarded MC in 1918); Sgt Thomas Dunlop Stevenson (awarded MC in 1918); Sgt Karl Mayoh (awarded Belgian Croix de Guerre in 1918); Edwin George Butcher (awarded MC in 1918); Sgt John Alister Ewing; Sgt G D Jones; Sgt Frederick Thomas Kerr; Sgt Gerald Voss Hopkins; Sgt E Marriott; Sgt Harold Corrrie Valentine; and Sgt Malcolm Shore Stanley. Second row: Sgt Reginald Jones Robin; Lieutenant (Lt) Paul Jones; Lt John Saxton Peppercorn; Lt G L Thirkell (probably Lt Lancelot George Thirkell); Lt Frederick Henry Morton; Sgt G D Jones; Sgt R J White. Front row, seated on ground: Sydney Baget Rees; E C Warner (probably 15802 Sapper Edgar Cecil Warner); E O M Rowlinson (probably 15798 Edward Octavius Rowlinson) and Sgt R H M Eltis (probably Robert Harry Mervyn Eltis (awarded MM 1917)). (See Reference image for signatures on mount of photograph).