Group portrait of junior officers of the 56th Battalion

Accession Number P03140.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white, Landscape
Physical description Black & white, Landscape
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Goulburn
Date made 1916
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 junior officers of the 56th Battalion, First World War. Back row, left to right: Lieutenant (Lt) W. J. Roseland, Lt Harold Walton Otter, Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Benjamin Arthur Cornwell, 2nd Lt Albert Henry Grimsley, 2nd Lt Herbert Lake Cory and 2nd Lt George William Porteous. Front row: Lt C. McDowell, Lt A. A. Blackpool, Captain W. Gee, Lt Horace Joseph (Horrie) Rex, killed in action on 7 October 1917, and 2nd Lt Aubrey Sidney Cotton, who was awarded a Military Cross in 1919.