Group portrait of officers of the Anzac Corps Headquarters outside Shepheard's Hotel. Back row, ...

Accession Number A01580
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Egypt: Cairo
Date made March 1915
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 officers of the Anzac Corps Headquarters outside Shepheard's Hotel. Back row, left to right (standing): Major (Maj) C M Wagstaff, Corps of Royal Engineers (RE), General Staff Officer (GSO) 2; Lieutenant (Lt) R G Chirnside, Automobile Corps, AIF, Aide-de-Camp (ADC); Lt B W Onslow, 11th Hussars, Indian Army, ADC; Captain (Capt) J G McConaghy, 25th Cavalry (Frontier Force), ADC and Camp Commandant; Temporary Lieutenant Colonel (Temp Lt Col) W B Lesslie, RE, Assistant Adjutant & Quartermaster-General (AA & QMG); Maj C H Villiers Stuart, 56th Punjabi Rifles, Indian Army (Frontier Force), GSO2; Temp Lt Col H O Knox, ASC, AQMG; Capt F H Mitchell, Royal Navy; Battalion Lt Col A Skeen, 24th Punjabi, Indian Army, GSO1; Lt Col E R Bowler, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Assistant Provost Marshal. Front row (sitting); Colonel (Col) Charles S Ryan VD, Australian Army Medical Corps, Medical Officer attached; Temporary Brigadier General (Brig Gen) C Cunliffe Owen CB BG, Royal Artillery; Temporary Brig Gen H B Walker DSO, Brig Gen, General Staff; Temporary Lt Gen W R Birdwood, Indian Army, GOC; Temporary Brig Gen R A Carruthers CB, Indian Army, DA & QMG; Lt Col A C de L Joly de Lotbiniere, CSI CIE, RE; Col C St C Cameron of Tasmania (not an AIF officer).