A stretcher bearer receiving a medal from General Sir William Birdwood at a presentation parade ...

Accession Number E01272
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Messines, Neuve Eglise
Date made 4 December 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A stretcher bearer receiving a medal from General Sir William Birdwood at a presentation parade of the 3rd Australian Division at Neuve Eglise. Identified, standing around the table, left to right: Lieutenant Colonel R. E. Jackson DSO; Captain (Capt) S. W. Hawkins; Captain Clarence Abraham Pyke DSO; Lieutenant McGregor; Capt P. W. Simonson; General Birdwood; Major General John Monash; unidentified. In the background, left to right: Lieutenant Colonel G. H. N. Jackson; Brigadier General W. R. McNicoll; unidentified; Captain T. Morell.