Group portrait of officers of the 15th Battalion prior to embarkation overseas. Captain (later ...

Accession Number A03576
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Broadmeadows
Date made c 1914
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 15th Battalion prior to embarkation overseas. Captain (later Major) Quinn [of Quinn's Post, Gallipoli], is second from right, third row. Identified in back row, left to right: Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Francis Leofric Armstrong (killed in action 10 May 1915); 2nd Lt John Anderson Good; 2nd Lt John Hill; 2nd Lt Thomas Robertson (killed in action 27 April 1915); 2nd Lt Leo George Casey; 2nd Lt Leslie Norman Collin (killed in action 9 May 1915); 2nd Lt Archibald Douglas. Third row: Captain (Capt) Douglas Herman Cannon; Capt Cyril Frederick Corser; Lieutenant (Lt) Henry Charles. Davies; Lt Nikolai Theodore Svensen; Capt John Foulkes Richardson; 2nd Lt Douglas Stephen Freeman; Capt John Francis Walsh (killed in action 28 April 1915); Capt Hugh Quinn (killed in action 29 May 1915); 2nd Lt George Frederick Dickinson. Second row: 2nd Lt Norman Dickson (died of wounds 27 April 1915); Major (Maj) Robert Eccles Snowden; Maj Hubert Reginald Carter; Lieutenant Colonel James Harold Cannon; Capt William Organ Willis (killed in action 3 May 1915); Honorary Lt Frederick William Craig. Front row: 2nd Lt Cecil Edwin Snartt; 2nd Lt Samuel William Harry; Lt Harry Kessell; Lt Francis Moran (died of wounds 20 August 1915); Lt Leslie John Walters; 2nd Lt Nicholas O'Brien; 2nd Lt Arthur Gurr Hinman.