Group portrait of four members of the 32nd Battalion cropped from a portrait of the NCOs of the ...

Group portrait of four members of the 32nd Battalion cropped from a portrait of the NCOs of the battalion (See E01620). From left to right, 2589 Corporal (Cpl) Charles Samuel Curgenven, 5th Reinforcements, 32nd Battalion; 3261 Cpl Gilbert Kevern Rickard, 7th Reinforcements of the 27th Battalion and later of the 32nd Battalion; 413 Sergeant (Sgt) Harry Arthur Luckwald, 32nd Battalion; and 2277 Cpl George Lennard Miller, 4th Reinforcements, 32nd Battalion. All four members were with the 32nd Battalion when it relocated to the Western Front, France, during June 1916. Cpl Rickard, a grocer's assistant from Penola, South Australia was wounded in action at the Battle of Fromelles and rejoined his unit three months later. Trench feet and trench fever caused him to be repatriated to Australia for discharge in October 1918. Sgt Luckwald, a platelayer from Ascot Vale, Victoria, was wounded in action on two occasions and returned to Australia for discharge in March 1919. Cpl Curgenven, a labourer from Parkside, South Australia, was awarded the Military Medal for his actions in the field near Ypres on 17 November 1917. He was wounded in action near Corbie, France, on 23 May 1918 but remained on duty. Cpl Curgenven was killed in action near Amiens, France on 19 June 1918. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. He was aged 23 years. Cpl Miller, a labourer from Broken Hill, New South Wales, was wounded in action near Corbie, France, on 5 May 1918 and also remained on duty. He was wounded in action on a second occasion near Proyart, France, on 27 August 1918, died of these wounds later that day and is buried in the Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres. He was aged 23 years.