New Delhi. 25 October 1940. Group portrait of delegates to an Eastern Group Supply Conference ...

New Delhi. 25 October 1940. Group portrait of delegates to an Eastern Group Supply Conference held to discuss the supply of munitions and other goods. This conference led to the setting up of the Eastern Group Supply Council, permanently in session at New Delhi, with representatives from the United Kingdom, India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand, plus a representative of the Army Council and Imperial General Staff, who, after a Central Provision Office had decided questions such as priority of needs and other military details, brought before the Council the demands of the forces in the eastern Group. The Council then had to decide from which country or countries it would be best to obtain supplies. Left to right, 1st row (sitting): Honourable (Hon) Mr H. Dow (India); Hon D. B. Sir A. Ramaswami Mudaliar (India); Hon Sir Jeremy Raisman (India); F. J. Fahey (South Africa); Major (Maj) R. Stuttaford (South Africa); Major R. Stratford (South Africa); P. Furness (South Africa); H. R. Gollan (Australia); T. Donaldson (Australia); A. V. Smith (Australia); N. K. S. Brodribb (Australia); G. Walsh (Palestine); Sir Philip Mitchell (East Africa); Hon Sir Paw Tun (Burma); Sir Alexander Roger (Roger Mission); F. R. Picot (New Zealand); Hon Sir Muhammed Zafrulla Khan (India); H. E. The Viceroy; Hon Sir Walter Massy-Greene (Australia, leader of the Australian delegation); Major General F. R. G. Hoare (South Africa); Hon Mr H. J. Huxham (Ceylon); Captain the Hon F. E. Harris (Southern Rhodesia); H. North-Hunt (Malaya); D. J. Sloss (Hong Kong); J. R. Middleton (New Zealand); Major H. E. Erridge (New Zealand); A. B. Taylor (New Zealand); G. H. Locock (Roger Mission); H. Heath (Roger Mission); H. W. L. Kearns (Roger Mission); F. Lydall (Roger Mission); O. W. Stickland (Roger Mission); P. S. Macdonald (Roger Mission); General Sir Clement Armitage (India); and Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) E. G. Cook (Mid East). Second row (standing): G. Musgrave (Southern Rhodesia); Hon Mr J. B. Pandya (East Africa); Hon Mr J. H. McQuade (East Africa); Diwan Bahadur C. S. Ratnasabapathy Mudaliar (India); Captain H. Bertin (Southern Rhodesia); Hon Mr G. C. S. Corea (Ceylon); M. Venkatanaranappa (India); J. S. Smith (India); Miss Hoare (South Africa); Miss P. North-Hunt (Malaya); Sir Ness Wadia (India); Sir William Barton (Roger Mission); Brigadier B. H. Penn (Roger Mission); F. H. Harrison (Roger Mission); Lt Col T. E. Robins (Southern Rhodesia); Sir Abdul Halim Ghuznavi (India); L. Shri Ram (India); Amrit Lal Ojha (India); Fazal Ibrahim Rahimtoolah (India); J. G. Laithwaite (P.S.V.); Lt Col B. MacMahon (M.S.V.); J. J. Ghandy (India); Lt Col E. W. Slaughter (India); K. B. Syed Maratib Ali (India); W. A. Fell (Malaya); Hon Mr Tay Lian Teck (Malaya); D. L. Newbigging (Hong Kong); E. M. Jenkins (Secretary General); John Whyatt (Hong Kong); E. Cock (Hong Kong); P. F. S. Warren (India); Biren Mookerjee (India); G. B. Morton (India); Frederic Stones (India); R. Menzies (India); Hon Mr G. F. Clay (East Africa); Julius Jacobs (Palestine); and Hon Mr R. V. Stone (East Africa). Third row (standing): A. H. Seymour (Burma); Col E. Wood (India); A. S. Roger (Roger Mission); Sir Guthrie Russell (India); Maj Hon F. W. Cavendish-Bentinck (East Africa); D. H. Balfour (Ceylon); Hon Mr J. Baxter (Burma); Professor C. G. Beasley (Burma); J. Walker (Roger Mission); J. L. Knott (Australia); Barclay Leechman (East Africa); C. R. Anderson (South Africa); Captain J. Mathews (Roger Mission); H. M. Mathews (Roger Mission); J. H. S. Richardson (India); H. T. Maclachlan (Southern Rhodesia); S. Oldfield (Roger Mission); D. McKenzie (Roger Mission); A. O. Tookey (Roger Mission); W. D. Tomkins (Roger Mission); F. J. Hollies (Roger Mission); F. W. Leake (Roger Mission); S. V. Woolley (Roger Mission); W. G. A. Cook (Ceylon); N. U. Jayewardena (Ceylon); D. Harrison (Roger Mission); H. J. E. Hewlett (Roger Mission); Maj J. P. Acworth (Assistant to Joint Secretaries); Lt Col E. S. B. Gaffney (Joint Secretary); Maj L. R. Knight (Staff Officer); J. A. Mackeown (Joint Secretary); S. H. Y. Oulsnam (Secretary); A.D.C. to H. E.; A.D.C. to H.E.; A.C. Das (Assistant Secretary). (Original stored in AWM Archive Store.)