Group portrait of members of the 18th Battalion. Identified are: Front row, left to right: 5691 ...

Accession Number P10550.753
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original postcard negative
Maker Thuillier, Louis
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Vignacourt
Date made c 1916-1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
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Description

Group portrait of members of the 18th Battalion. Identified are: Front row, left to right: 5691 Private (Pte) Vincent William Kelly, 6370 Pte Donald Cameron Monroo McLeod, 6369 Pte George Angus McLeod, 2425 Pte George McIntyre MM. Back row: unidentified, unidentified, 6286 Pte John Patrick Carroll, unidentified, 6393 Pte Henry William Saunders, 6074 Pte Maurice Gelle. (See also P10550.044 and P10550.146)

2425 Pte George McIntyre was awarded the Military Medal for his actions on 3 October 1918 near Joncourt when he showed gallantry and devotion to duty by traversing open ground, continually under machine gun fire, to obtain communications with the commanding officers of two other companies.

From the Thuillier collection of glass plate negatives. Taken by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier in Vignacourt, France during the period 1916 to 1918.