Group of eleven soldiers, known as the Syndicate, from the 19th Battalion, AIF. Identified back ...

Place Europe: France
Accession Number H02143
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made France
Date made c 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Group of eleven soldiers, known as the Syndicate, from the 19th Battalion, AIF. Identified back row from left to right: 4746 Private (Pte) Alfred Francis McGuinnes and his brother 4747 Pte Walter Edward McGuinnes of St Peters, NSW; 4729 Pte Charles Norman Kenny of Ryde, NSW (died of wounds in France on 3 May 1917); 4727 Pte Reginald Sam Ingram of Ryde; 4265 Pte Arthur Warren of Sydney, NSW; and 1576 Pte Ephraim Ninnim of Sydney (died of wounds in France on 2 September 1918). Seated in second row: 4726 Pte Robert Searle Ingram of Ryde (killed in action in France on 14 November 1916); 3802 Corporal Edward Thomas Foord of Ashfield, NSW (killed in action in France on 15 April 1917); and 4269 Pte James White of Glebe, NSW. Reclining in the front: 1226 Pte Charles William Leslie (killed in action in France on 3 May 1917) and 1227 Pte Henry Alfred Long (died of sickness in England on 9 April 1917), both of Chippendale, NSW. The two signs being held in the front read "The Syndicate. Get an eye full of it. 19th Batt." and "Somewhere in France."