Outdoor group portrait of Military staff outside the Officers’ Mess at Rabaul. Identified from ...

Accession Number A01794
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Pacific Islands: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula, Rabaul Area, Rabaul
Date made April 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoor group portrait of Military staff outside the Officers’ Mess at Rabaul. Identified from left to right in the back row by numbers: 22 Major (Maj) McIntyre; 21 Captain (Capt) John Stanley Colhoun from Melbourne, Victoria; 20 Capt Reginald Alan Hanlin from Perth, Western Australia; 23 Lieutenant (Lt) Wilfred Robinson from Sydney, NSW: 24 Unidentified.
Second row from left to right: 12 Capt Allen Hope Southey from Sydney; 13 Capt John Groves Court from Warwick, Queensland; 19 Lt Henry Tracey Richardson from Melbourne; 14 Maj Esmond Vaughan Hayes from Sydney; 15 Capt James Harold Hunt from Narrandera, NSW; 18 Lt J McEnarey; 17 Lt William Ludwig Bay from Taree, NSW; and 16 Capt Roy Crambrook Kershaw from Sydney.
Third row from left to right: 11 Capt Edward Featherstone Phibbs from Cairns, Queensland; 10 Capt Augustus Frederick Bolton from Sydney; 9 Capt Douglas Lincoln Kirkby Richardson from Melbourne; 8 Unidentified; 7 Capt Joseph Thorn Tennent from Brisbane; 6 Unidentified; 5 Maj Howard Newport from Rabaul (curator of the Rabaul Botanical Gardens prior to appointment); 4 Lieutenant Commander John Leonard Bain from Essendon, Victoria; 3 Brigadier General George Jameson Johnston from Melbourne; 2 Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) John Wellesley Flood, Principal Medical Officer from Brinkworth, South Australia; and 1 Lt Col Leslie Fraser Standish Hore MC from Hobart, Tasmania.

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