| Place | Europe: France, Nord Pas de Calais, Pas de Calais, Desvres |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | E01621 |
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative |
| Maker |
Unknown Australian Official Photographer |
| Place made | France: Nord Pas de Calais, Pas de Calais, Desvres, France: Nord Pas de Calais, Pas de Calais, Desvres |
| Date made | 29 December 1917 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Group portrait of the NCOs of the 30th Battalion, 5th Division, in the snow. Identified from left ...
Description
Group portrait of the NCOs of the 30th Battalion, 5th Division, in the snow. Identified from left to right, front row: position (1) 1615 Corporal (Cpl) Kenneth Alexander Stevenson; (2) 1195 Cpl William Thomas Abel; (3) 4394 Cpl Charles Henry Hoskin Pratt (later killed in action in Belgium on 2 February 1918); (4) 4295 Cpl Roland Southam; (5) 1598 Cpl Norman McKenzie; (6) 107 Sergeant (Sgt) Arthur David Burns MM; (7) 2492 Sgt Linton Harold Moore (later awarded MM); (8) 4030 Cpl Frederick Claude Florance; (9) 618 Lance Sergeant (L Sgt) Ernest Charles Brown; (10) 2570 Sgt Augustus Lewis Anderson; (11) 2283 Company Sergeant Major (CSM) Leonard Birmingham Bickerton (killed in action in France on 29 September 1918); (12) 4084 Cpl Daniel Bernard McVeity (later L Sgt); (13) 3018 Sgt Henry James Shepherd; (14) 839 Sgt Gordon Begg; (15) 5196 Sgt Reginald McKinnon; and (16) 1573 Cpl Alfred Kirkby.
Second row: position (17) 1263 Sgt Eric Douglas Robinson; (18) 398 Sgt Geoffrey Cowan (later DCM); (19) Sgt Carran; (20) 1328 Cpl William Duncan (21) 614 Sgt Alfred Haughton Brown; (22) 2926 Percy Ferguson (23) 1007 Cpl Edgar Wilkinson; (24) 1085 Sgt George Edward Hard (later Lieutenant (Lt)); (25) 7 Sgt George William Wrapson; (26) 1110 Cpl Joseph Iles Mills; (27) 2792 Cpl Albert Ernest Turley (later MM and L Sgt); (28) 4407 Cpl James Hill Watson (died of wounds in France on 19 July 1918); (29) 1557 Cpl Thomas Cyril Grogan (later MM); (30) 473 CSM Joseph Bernard McGowan DCM; (31) 4800 Cpl William Lloyd; (32) 1233 CSM Eric George McKinnon (later Lt); (33) 1294 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Harold David Ford; (34) 88 Company Quartermaster Sergeant (CQMS) Edward Forbes Walker; (35) 66 Cpl Albert Goldman; (36) 1066 Sgt William Henry Elms; (37) 470 Sgt Warren Frederick Munday (later MM) [almost totally obscured]; (38) 568 Cpl William Henry Webb (killed in action in France on 30 September 1918); (39) 2069 L Sgt William Charles Jackson; (40) 1594 Sgt Edward McBride; (41) 265 Sgt John Edmund Penrose; (42) 393 Sgt Reginald Hardy Cooper (killed in action in France on 29 September 1918); (43) 3765 Sgt John Edmund Buttsworth; (44) 265 Cpl John Ernest Skene; (45) 691 L Cpl Albert Hampton James (later Cpl); (46) 1222 Sgt Florence McGillycuddy MM; (47) 3340 Sgt Lyle Ewen Watterston; (48) 1544 L Sgt Samuel Douglas Dickson (later Lt) [partly obscured]; (49) 155 Sgt Robert James Estell (later MM); and (50) 2353 Cpl Harold James Jarvis.
Back row: position (51) 568 Cpl William Henry Webb (killed in action in France on 3 September 1918); (52) 1295 Sgt Albert William Chivers; (53) 473 CSM Joseph Bernard McGowan (later awarded DCM and killed in action in Belgium on 24 March 1918); (54) 1323 CQMS James Andrew Hogg MM; (55) 1805 Sgt Frank McCristal; (56) 4748 Cpl Robert John Ball; (57) 904 Cpl Peter John Holder (later died of wounds in France on 28 August 1916); (58) 1246 Cpl George Ogle; (59) 877 Sgt Thomas Eccles, MM; (60) 4139 Cpl Alexander Centennial Stubbs; (61) 366A Cpl George Bromley (later L Sgt); (62) 2267 Cpl Cecil Edwin Alcorn (later Lt); (63) 2072 Cpl Raymond Eric Johnson (later Sgt); (64) 827 Cpl William James Burns; (65) 3754 L Sgt William Christy Abbott (later MM and Lt); (66) 979 Cpl Arthur Leslie Smith; (67) 539 Sgt Walter George Smith MM; (68) 965 Sgt Claud Lionel Lindsay Rideley; (69) 1279 L Sgt Hugh Dodington Gooding; and (70) 833 Sgt John Hamilton Brown.