Group portrait of members of 9 Platoon, C Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment ...

Accession Number P10353.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker A F Judson & Co
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made February 1952
Conflict Korea, 1950-1953
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of members of 9 Platoon, C Company, 1st Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR), prior to embarkation for Japan then service in the Korean War. Back row, left to right: 12432 Private (Pte) Harold James Gibson; Bentley?; 2400630? D Roberts? (possibly 27966 Pte Don Roberts); 1400287 Pte Donald Clarke; 2400645 Pte David Scullion (served as David McCarthy) (later MM); 11905 Pte Gerald Duncan Woodrow; 11909 Pte Raymond John Smith; 2400687 Pte John Joseph (Dixie) Lee; 2400515 Pte Keith Louis Herd; 2400641 Pte Patrick James Humphries; and 2400599 Pte Athol Douglas Frederiksen. Middle row: 25331 Leon Amos Brown; 27402 Ronald William Prothero; 25677 Pte John Francis Logan; 25701 Pte Joseph Thomas Baikie; 25229 Pte Edward Thomas Watmore (died of wounds 14 January 1953); 28530 Pte Ivan Hall; 2400620 Ronald John McCrindle (later MM); 2400639 Pte Patrick Michael Wayne; 2400693 Clyde Neville Schubert; 51024 Pte Gordon Herbert "Curly" Daly (served as Pte Alexander Daly); 25232 Pte Edward Charles Smith; 32649 Pte Leslie "Paddy" Boyce; and 2400663 Pte Peter John McLean. Front row, seated: 2400656 Pte Roger Herman Van Straveren; 2400576 Pte Roger Henry Harvey; 2400718 Corporal Arthur Nicholas Gough; 2955 Sergeant John Edward Fury; 237657 Lieutenant Peter Henry Cliff (killed in action 21 September 1952); 23973 Corporal Neil Norman Parker; 24602 Corporal Joseph Clyde Stewart; 25267 E C Schmidt (probably 25287 Pte Douglas Austin Schmidt); 25313 Pte John Rollen Batten; and 2400618 Pte Kevin Talmadge.