Informal portrait of Captain Clark (captain of HMAT Ulysses) (rear), Lieutenant (Lt) Norman ...

Informal portrait of Captain Clark (captain of HMAT Ulysses) (rear), Lieutenant (Lt) Norman Leslie Petschler (front left), Lt Albert Griggs (rear right) and Honorary Captain (Hon Capt) Henry Haigh Storrer (front right), all from No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps, taken on board HMAT Ulysses. All embarked from Melbourne of 25 October 1916. Lt Petschler, an indenter from Kogarah NSW prior to enlistment was later promoted to Captain and returned to Australia on 20 October suffering from neurasthenia. Lt Griggs, originally from Mississippi, USA, was a civil engineer prior to enlistment. Later transferring to No. 68 Squadron, he was reported as missing in action. It was subsequently established that he had been killed in action on 23 November 1917. Having no known grave, he is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial, France. Hon Capt Storrer, an accountant from Geelong, Victoria prior to enlistment, was later promoted to Captain and transferred to No. 69 Squadron. On 2 December 1917 he was killed in action and was buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord), France.