Outdoor group portrait of smiling officers of the 48th Battalion. Identified in the back row from ...

Outdoor group portrait of smiling officers of the 48th Battalion. Identified in the back row from left to right: Lieutenant (Lt) Alfred Henry Lawrence; Lt Leslie St John Brown; Lt Bryn Arvfon Jones (later a Captain in the Second World War); Lt Percy Ernest Nimmo (later served as a Sergeant in the Second World War); Lt Edward Gordon Holton (later served as a Lt in the Second World War); Lt Archibald Robert Allen (later a Brigadier in the Second World War); Lt George Deane Mitchell, DCM MC (later served as a Major in the Second World War); Lt Gordon Augustus Pavy (later promoted to Captain); Lt Roy Edred Potts (later awarded MC and Bar and promoted to Captain); Lt Thomas Francis Arnold, MM (later awarded DCM and MC); and Lt Maxwell Barton Tweedie McDowall MM (later awarded MC).
Third row from left to right: Lt John Whittle (later killed in action at Albert, France on 29 March 1918); Captain (Capt) Vernon Carlisle Brown MC and Bar (Australian Army Medical Corps and later served as a Major in the Second World War); Lt Hurtle John Burnett (later awarded MC); Lt Herbert Harold Maynard MM (later killed in action at Albert, France on 5 April 1918); Lt Henry William James; Capt William Caldwell; Lt Douglas Harold Clarke; Capt Norman George Imlay, MC; Lt Joseph Arthur Bingley; Lt Leslie George Reginald Challen (later awarded MC and served as a Major in the Second World War); Lt Arthur John Gelston (later awarded MC); Capt Thomas Robin Hammond (later awarded MC); and Capt Derwas Goring Charles Cumming, MC (later awarded Bar to MC and killed in action at Villers-Bretonneux, France on 3 May 1918).
Second row from left to right: Capt Lavington Lewis Carter MM; Capt Thomas Hampton Elliot (later killed in action at Albert, France on 28 March 1918); Lt Harry Downes MM (later awarded MC); Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Raymond Lionel Leane, DSO MC (later awarded Companion of the Order of the Bath, Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, Bar to the DSO and the French Croix de Guerre and served as a Brigadier General in the Second World War); Major Alban George Moyes (later awarded MC and served as a Lt Col in the Second World War); and Capt Frederick Anderson (later served as a Capt in the Second World War).
Front row from left to right: Lt Edgar Logan; Lt Wallace Douglas Pritchard; Lt Charles William Stoerkel, MC (AKA Charles William Tanner who was later awarded a Bar to the MC); Lt Geoffrey Paul Leane (later awarded MC); Lt Robert Scott Rafferty MM; and Lt Albert Frederick Franke (later served as a Capt in the Second World War).