Group Photographic portrait of nineteen soldiers of the No 2 Company, Australian mining corps

Place Europe: France
Accession Number AWM2017.6.158
Collection number PR82/008
Collection type Digitised Collection
Record type Item
Item count 1
Object type Letter
Physical description 4 Image/s captured
Maker Dynes, William Babington
Place made France
Date made 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copying Provisions Digital format and content protected by copyright.
Description

Group Photographic portrait of nineteen soldiers in uniform. Attached to the photograph is a note from William Babinton Dynes which identifies the group as a party of No 2 Company of the Australian Mining Corps, now known as the 2nd Australian Tunnelling Company, photographed in France on their return from a shift in the trenches, 21 August 1916. The Nineteen solider are:
Back Row: Driver Charles William Cooper; 566 Corporal William George;
Third Row: Sapper Thomas Herbert Savill; Sapper Stanley Hunter; Corporal Robert Hughston Close; Sapper James Ward; Corporal Charles Whitlaw Dunham;
Second Row: Corporal Reg Henry William McAuliffe; Sapper Ernest French Pascoe; Sapper Patrick McCarthy; Sapper John Colin Patterson; Sapper Bertie Phillip Cleary; 497 Sapper John Boyd;
Front Row: Corporal Martin George Dunn; Sergeant Leonard Raynor Hardinge; Sergeant Murray Francis Edwards; Quartermaster Sergeant George Angus Drummond; Sergeant Alexander Francis Girling; Corporal Joseph William Allen
[Includes envelope]