Group portrait of NCOs and two Officers, members of the 7th Division Provost Company, outside the ...

Accession Number AWM2016.409.3
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made 21 August 1940
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 NCOs and two Officers, members of the 7th Division Provost Company, outside the Katoomba guest house and holiday house Cloudlands, where they were billeted en route from Ingleburn ilitary camp to Bathurst military camp. Identified, left to right: NX29708 Sergeant (Sgt) William Silvey; Sgt H Docharty (possibly NX28150 Harry Docharty [later Captain]; 2567 (NP5024, NX65550) Regimental Sergeant Major Squire Berringer Chippendale Hanslow; NX12506 Captain (Capt) John Spillard [Spilland] Grimshaw (later MC, Lieutenant Colonel); Capt N W Faulkner MC MM (VX28711 (Nevinson Willoughby Faulkner); NX28164 Sergeant (later lieutenant) Basil Ponting; NX20150 Sgt F "Tiny" Kirkwood (Frederic Laurence Nicholas Kirkwood, later Major, killed in an accident 30 December 1944).