London, England. 1918-12. Formal outdoors group portrait of an AIF Headquarters unit which a note ...

Accession Number P02371.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker The Swiftprint Studios
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

London, England. 1918-12. Formal outdoors group portrait of an AIF Headquarters unit which a note on the portrait describes as '103 (Non Military Employment)'. The group were probably involved in the organisation and administration of the post-war training schemes created to occupy men of the AIF while they waited for transport home to Australia. Left to right: back row: 1920 Private (Pte) George Henry Schofield, AIF Headquarters; 3090 Pte George Joseph Lee, 33rd Battalion; 2091 Corporal (Cpl) Claude Reginald Lisle, 33rd Battalion; unknown. Fourth row: unknown; unknown; 31636 Sergeant (Sgt) Ben Davies, 7th Field Artillery Brigade; Golding; others unknown. Third row: unknown; Hughes; 2617 Sgt Roy Prescott Bannister, Broad Gauge Railway; F.P.H. Smith; unknown; 22371 Cpl Ellis Ruddial Platt, 7th Field Artillery Brigade; 5676 Sgt Charles Augustine Coghlan, 20th Battalion. Second row: Lieutenant (Lt) Dennis Duggan, 3rd Pioneers; Lt Thomas Kenafick, Australian Veterinary Hospital; unknown; Major Geoffrey Drake Brockman, MP, 3rd Divisional Engineers; Lieutenant Colonel W.H. S...d...; Lt Joseph Ignatius Carroll DCM, 4th Broad Gauge Railway; Lt Hector Lee, 33rd Battalion; Lt Archibald John Peyton, 3rd Divisional Artillery; Cpl A.E. Scott. Front row: unknown; unknown; Pte A. Pocock; 20245 Gunner George Alexander Garson, 7th Field Artillery Brigade; unknown; 6098 Pte Charles Reginald Simonsen, 15th Battalion; unknown. (Donor F. Starr)