Group portrait of members of the 16th Reinforcements to the 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Brisbane, Chermside
Accession Number P02147.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made Australia: Queensland, Brisbane, Chermside
Date made March 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of members of the 16th Reinforcements to the 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment (5ALH) at the Chermside Camp before embarking for active service overseas. The unit embarked on 5 April 1916 at Sydney on HMAT A47 Mashobra. Included in the group are two indigenous serviceman, the soldier back row, far right, is unidentified and the soldier, second row, far left, is most likely to be 2420 Trooper Walter Couchy. (Original print held in AWM Archive Store)