Outdoor group portrait of No 12 Section, probably members of B Company, 31st Battalion, at camp ...

Accession Number P12628.001.007
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Place made Egypt
Date made 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

Outdoor group portrait of No 12 Section, probably members of B Company, 31st Battalion, at camp in Egypt. Inscribed on reverse and believed to be in this group are: [illeg.] Binfield (possibly 484 Charles Binfield, died of wounds 1 November 1916); Hughie Bowman (possible 517 Hugh Bowman); Harry Mates (possibly 515 Harold Mates, killed in action 20 July 1916); Archie McLeay (possibly 518 George Archibald McLay); Jack Leslie (possibly 432 John Leslie); Frank Kerle (possibly 516 Franz Ferdinand Kerle); Ned Patterson (possibly 509 Eddie Patterson MM); Saddler (possibly 542 Herbert Sadler, killed in action 19 July 1916); Porter (possibly 1088 Albert Porter); Frank Wilkinson (360 Francis Wilkinson).

Photograph appears in an album compiled by 360 Sergeant Francis (Frank) Theodore Wilkinson, who served with the 31st Battalion during the First World War and in the Second World War.