Group portrait of members of the Signals Group, 2/4 Commando Squadron, at the base of an oil ...

Place Asia: Borneo, Tarakan
Accession Number 110643
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Rainsford, Ross John
Place made Borneo: Tarakan
Date made 3 July 1945
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 members of the Signals Group, 2/4 Commando Squadron, at the base of an oil derrick beside the unit headquarters on the road to Cape Djoeata. Identified from left to right, back row: QX44396 Trooper (Tpr) Clive Neil Clelland from Brisbane, Queensland (24); QX25807 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Dudley Oscar Pascoe from Roma, Queensland (25); VX57529 Tpr Alan Francis Sutherland from Kerang, Victoria (26); VX61103 Signalman Ian Alfred Walker from Benalla, Victoria (27); VX65891 Corporal (Cpl) Donald Percival Kellond from Collingwood, Victoria (28); NX133848 Tpr Alfred Lewis Madgwick from Paddington, NSW (29); NX51917 Lance Sergeant John Henry Cory from Warwick, Queensland (30); NX110266 Tpr Lincoln Milburn from Lorn, NSW (31); and NX53150 Tpr Thomas Edward Carson from Cessnock, NSW(32).
Second row: NX172358 Tpr Frederick Charles Gardiner from Abbotsford, NSW (12); WX39159 Tpr Harold Charles Thomas from Maylands, Western Australia (13); NX107325 Tpr Laurence Gregory Poxon from Swansea, NSW (14); NX38338 Cpl Mervyn George Ripley from Five Dock, NSW (15); VX55323 Tpr Ian Alexander Graham from North Fitzroy, Victoria (16); VX58175 Tpr William Murray McMicking from Hampton, Victoria (17); NX105896 L Cpl Raymond Charles Warren from Bexley, NSW (18); VX113626 Tpr Walter James Sweetland from Footscray, Victoria (19); NX73851 Cpl Frederick Colin Simmonds from Bankstown, NSW (20); QX41860 Tpr Arthur Freeman from Rosewood, Queensland (21); VX64527 Sergeant Ralph Joseph Coyne from Toorak, Victoria (22); and SX18959 Tpr Peter Victor Abrahamson from Hendon, South Australia (23).
Front row: NX48838 Tpr Edwin Arnold Brown from Cooma, NSW (1); NX161442 Tpr Kenneth Frederick Doswell from Mosman, NSW (2); SX24819 Tpr John O'Leary from Magill, South Australia (3); NX169902 Tpr Donald Lawrence Hall from Bexley, NSW (4); QX23351 Tpr Geoffrey Thomas Fraser from Maryborough, Queensland (5); NX140839 Lieutenant (Lt) Robert James Stone from Lawson, NSW (6); NX142772 Tpr Cedric John Warren from Bexley, NSW (7); VX92259 Tpr Robert James Michael Carew from North Carlton, Victoria (8); VX77518 Tpr Wilfred Lloyd Roberts from Hawthorn, Victoria (9); NX132271 Tpr Patrick James Monaghan from Newcastle, NSW (10); and WX16923 Tpr Noel Edwin Skinn from Bunbury, Western Australia (11).