Outdoor group portrait of members of a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Band possibly from HMAS ...

Accession Number AWM2019.1108.1
Collection type Photograph
Object type Print
Date made 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoor group portrait of members of a Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Band possibly from HMAS Cerberus.

The Bandsman in the second back row, 7th from the left (holding a saxophone) is possibly 21409 Bandsman John Henry Salabelle Macgowan.

Other bandsmen in the group, based on signatures around the frame but positions not know, possibly include: Bandsmen R20124 Thornton Page; 24798 Godfrey Lance Hampton; 24888 Norman Richard Kent Harris; 25684 Robert Francis David Johnstone; 24862 Alan Keith Dunstan; 25970 John Howell Coughlan; 19081 Frank Woodman Slaymaker; 25971 Stanley Ernest James; 2300 Stanley Gordon Green; 24631 Howard Arnold Ising; 24797 Bert Guy; 20703 Evan Meredydd Rees (Band Master); 19874 John Hammond Coxhead; 17456 Arthur William Charles Reilly; PA2855 John Leonard Stasinowsky; and 24644 Ewen Garnett Reddish.