Outdoor group portrait of 3 Platoon, A Company, 21st Battalion. Identified personnel include: ...

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Accession Number P11009.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Yeoman & Co
Place made Egypt: Cairo, Heliopolis
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoor group portrait of 3 Platoon, A Company, 21st Battalion. Identified personnel include: Lieutenant (Lt) Enrico Ferdinando Catani (third row centre and wearing an officer's Sam Browne belt); 288 Sergeant William Orestes Silverlock (third row, fourth from left) and 196 Sgt Oscar Anglesey Jones (third row sixth from left). Lt Catani, a grazier from Kyneton Victoria enlisted in April 1915 and embarked aboard HMAT A38 Ulysses from Port Melbourne on 10 May 1915. He served at Gallipoli and was killed in action in France on 29 July 1916. Sgt Jones, a policeman from Carlton Victoria, enlisted on 11 March 1915 and embarked from Port Melbourne on 10 May aboard HMAT A38 Ulysses on 1915. He served at Gallipoli, was promoted to the rank of Captain when the 21st Battalion arrived in France, and where he died of wounds on 3 May 1917. Sgt Jones was commissioned in France, was wounded three times and survived the war. He enlisted in 1940 and received a commission in the Royal Australian Engineers. Lt Silverlock was discharged from the 2nd AIF in March 1945 having served in several Australian Army small ships units.