Group portrait in the Officers' Mess of Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force ...

Group portrait in the Officers' Mess of Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF). Back row, left to right: Lieutenant (Lt) Allan Forbes Anderson from Sydney, NSW (later a Major (Maj) in the AIF and awarded the Croix de Guerre (Belgium)); Captain (Capt) Errol Wharton Kirke from Manly, NSW (later killed in action in France on 4 August 1916); unidentified; Lt Guy Owen Manning from Sydney (later a Capt and died in an accident in New Guinea on 18 June 1915); Lt Keith Heritage from Hobart, Tasmania ( later a Capt in the AIF, awarded a Military Cross (MC) and killed in action in France on 26 July 1916); Lt Reginald Havill Norman from North Sydney (later a Major in the AIF and awarded a Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and Croix de Guerre (Belgium)); Lt John Ellesmere Westgarth from Mudgee, NSW (later a Maj in the AIF); Lieutenant Commander Augustus Frederick Bligh Livesay RAN from Sydney (originally from the Isle of Wight, UK); Lt Ivan Brunker Sherbon from Paddington, NSW ( later a Maj in the AIF, awarded MC and killed in action in France on 14 November 1916); Lt William Charles Meredith Penly from Neutral Bay, NSW; Lt Charles Edye Manning from Hunters Hill, NSW (later a MAJ in the AIF and killed in action in France on 7 August 1916. He was the brother of Lt Guy Owen Manning); and the Mess waiters.
Second row from left to right: Mr Jolly; Lt Robert Partridge from Sydney; Capt Lionel Babington Ravenscroft from Sydney; Lt John Ambrose McDowell from Coogee, NSW (later a Maj in the AIF); Lt Victor Horatio Buller Sampson from Liverpool, NSW (later a MAJ in the AIF and killed in action in France on 19 July 1916); Capt James Logie (Hamish) Harcus from Orkney, Scotland (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 11 December 1915); Maj Robert Henry Beardsmore from Sydney (later awarded DSO); Lt Herbert Leslie Bruce from Maitland, NSW (later a Maj in the AIF and awarded MC); Lt Harold Woodford Johnson from North Sydney (later a Maj in the AIF and awarded MC and Croix de Guerre (France)); Lt Rupert Markham Sadler from Hurtsville, NSW (later a Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) in the AIF and awarded MC and DSO); Lt Patrick Kendall Barton Quinn from Naramburn, NSW (later a Lt in the AIF); Capt Windeyer Alexander Ralston from Strathfield, NSW (later a Lt Col in the AIF and awarded DSO); unidentified; Lt Herbert Collins from Sydney; and Mess waiters.
Front row from left to right: Capt Thomas Roy McPherson from Ashfield, NSW (later Maj in the AIF and killed in action at Gallipoli on 22 August 1915); Capt Reginald John Albert Travers from Neutral Bay, NSW (later a Lt Col in the AIF and awarded DSO); Maj Francis Bede Heritage from Launceston, Tasmania (later Lt Col in the AIF); Colonel William Holmes DSO from Sydney (later Major General); Lt Col John Paton from Newcastle, NSW ( later Brigadier General in AIF and awarded Order of St Stanislas – 2nd Class (with swards) (Russia), Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) and Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)); Lt Col William Walker Russell Watson from Brickfield Hill, NSW (later Col in the AIF and awarded Legion D’Honneur – Chevalier (France), CB and CMG); Maj Frederick Arthur Maguire from Glebe Point, NSW (later Col in AIF and awarded DSO); Capt Cyril Herbert Dodson Lane from Church Hill, NSW (later Maj in AIF and killed in action at Gallipoli on 29 August 1915); Lt Basil Holmes from Sydney (later Maj in AIF and awarded DSO); and Lt Strasbourg RAN (unable to identify in the RAN).