Group portrait of the instruction staff of the Educational Unit at Westham Camp, No. 2 Australian ...

Accession Number D00335
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, Dorset, Weymouth, United Kingdom: England, Dorset, Weymouth
Date made March 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
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 the instruction staff of the Educational Unit at Westham Camp, No. 2 Australian Command Depot. Back row, left to right: 5165 Corporal (Cpl) E. Satchell, librarian, 18th Battalion (Bn); 7031 Sapper (Spr) J. Cunningham, carpentry instructor, 2nd Field Engineers; 79958 Driver G. R. Chambers, motor driver assistant, Australian Motor Transport Section (AMTS); 6019 Cpl H. F. C. Gelly, French instructor, 6th Bn; 15734 Cpl W. A. Steel, turner and fitter instructor. Middle row: 6155 Private (Pte) J. Taylor, office orderly, 19th Bn; 264 Spr Reuben Edward Harman (Nominal Roll shows Harmen), clerk, 5th Broad Gauge Railway Operating Companies; 2392 Sergeant (Sgt) J. Cummings (Nominal Roll shows John Cumming), carpentry instructor, 58th Bn; 9442 Sgt W. H. Chrystie, architectural instructor, 12th Field Artillery; Sgt F. E. Glauert, visiting lecturer, Field Engineers; 5757 Cpl C. V. Howard, repatriation and demobilisation department, 2nd ATC; 2551 Sgt E. J. A. Beresford, commercial instructor, 16th Bn; 50908 Pte F. B. Mullins, assistant librarian, 19th Bn; 4800 Cpl T. R. Stafford, telegraph instructor, 6th Australian Field Artillery, Signals; 2237 Cpl H. R. Hutchings, bookkeeping instructor, 5th DSC; 1326 Cpl G. Kiernan, motor driver instructor, AMTS. Front row (sitting): 2569 Sgt G. C. Beresford, orderly room sergeant, 51st Bn; 7066 Sgt E. S. Rutledge, electrical instructor, 3rd Bn; 10384 Sgt T. J. Wood, instructor in charge motor school, AMTS; 606 Warrant Officer A. Boxall-Chapman, assistant to Depot Education Officer, AFC; Lieutenant H. B. Duce, Depot Education Officer, 52nd Bn; 7043 Sgt C. J. L. Street, general sub instructor, 1st Bn; 9842 (probably 9848, checked Nominal Roll) Sgt Hilton Arthur Clothier MM, woolclassing instructor, 9th Field Company Engineers; 7185 Sgt J. C. Benson, lecturer motor engineering, 5th DT. Note the sign on the wooden hut reads 'AIF Commercial School'.