Informal portrait of a group of officers of No.1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. Included in ...

Place Middle East
Accession Number P01034.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Date made c 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of a group of officers of No.1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps. Included in the group are: Captain (Capt) Ross Macpherson Smith (later Sir Ross Macpherson Smith KBE, MC and Bar, DFC and 2 Bars, AFC), Major (Maj) Allan Murray Jones (later MC DFC and Bar), Maj Lawrence James Wackett (later DFC AFC); Capt David Thomas William Manwell (later MBE (with back to camera); Lieutenant (Lt) Alexander Leighton Macnaughton; Lt Roy Maxwell Drummond. Lt Drummond originally served as a Corporal with No.2 Stationary Hospital before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps.