Group portrait of Carrier Platoon, 2/26th Battalion. Left to right: standing (back row): Privates ...

Place Asia: Malaya
Accession Number P01364.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Malaya
Date made 1941
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of Carrier Platoon, 2/26th Battalion. Left to right: standing (back row): Privates QX12062 Edwin James Bowkett (later presumed dead, lost at sea 13 September 1944), QX16383 Leonard Rupert. Hoyling; QX9221 Allan John Russell; QX12379 Corporal (Cpl) Wallace C. McDougall Ind (later died whilst a Prisoner of War (POW) in Burma on 5 November 1943); Lieutenant Stanley Stuart Roberts; QX17572 Cpl Malcolm Douglas Stark; Privates (Ptes) QX16608 Edward William Dangerfield; QX11779 Lance Corporal Jack Kenneth Bowmaker; QX19033 Robert Dudley Chisholm Alford; QX14756 Cpl Leonard Thomas Phillips (later died of illness whilst a POW in Burma on 19 February 1944). 2nd row (sitting): Ptes QX3476 John Victor. Barton; QX13696 George Henry Craft (later died in Siam (Thailand) on 3 October 1943); QX2855 Sergeant (Sgt) James Rodney Smith; QX15084 Cpl Charles Gilbert Hastings; QX14029 Ptes Cyril Richards; QX10907 Theodore Robinson Payne (later died of illness whilst a POW on 13 June 1943); QX20054 Francis Charles Rixon; QX13693 John Harold Lawton (later died of injuries in Malaya on 20 June 1942; QX13310 Owen George Smith. Front row: QX16307 Pte William Herbert McDonald; QX11233 Cpl Edwin Roy Jones; Sgt Sydney Roberts; Ptes Raymond James Stickley; QX12280 Kenneth James Barron; QX13633Albert James Henry Brookes; QX16385 Abraham George Irwin; Robert Lesley Gourley; QX14018 Evelyn George Garner (later presumed dead, lost at sea on 12 September 1944 whilst a POW); Sydney Anzac Stickley (later died of illness in Siam (Thailand) whilst a POW on 5 October 1943.