Group portrait of Colonel Alexander Robert Heron DSO, and officers of the 41st Australian ...

Accession Number E01321
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France
Date made 17 November 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

Group portrait of Colonel Alexander Robert Heron DSO, and officers of the 41st Australian Infantry Battalion at Asninghem, France. Identified from left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) William Malcolm McLean MC from Brisbane, Queensland; Lt Harold Joseph Wiles DSO from Brisbane; Lt J J Cassidy; Lt John Edward Woodford from Charters Towers, Queensland (killed in action in France 12 August 1918); Lt Frederick William MacGibbon from Hendra, Queensland (behind Woodford); Lt Harold Aubury Thomas Ingram from Toowoomba, Queensland (beside MacGibbon) (died of wounds in France 3 August 1918); Lt Thomas Real O'Sullivan from Toowong, Queensland (on Woodford's left) (killed in action in France 17 August 1918); Lt Arthur Edmond Dimmock from Nanango, Queensland (behind O'Sullivan); Lt Francis Joseph Buckenshaw MC from Brisbane (killed in action in France 15 May 1918); and Lt Niels Reinhardt Schroder from Brisbane. Middle row: Lt Maurice Christopher Woods from Albion, Queensland; Lt Reginald Rhodes Wood from Sydney, NSW; Lt William Henry Parker from Rockhampton, Queensland; Lt Percy William Harrison from Lismore, NSW; Lt George Sidney Dodds from Brisbane (died of wounds in France 29 September 1918); Lt Thomas Henry Miller from Brisbane; Lt Horace Frank Morehead Witham from Brisbane; Lt (Honorary Captain) William Arthur Fraser DSO from Brisbane; Lt Alan Percy Hamilton Adair from Maryborough, Queensland; and Lt John Joseph Moriarty MM from Lismore. Front row: Mr Ross Jones (YMCA); Lt Kenneth Adrian Murdoch from Richmond River, NSW; Captain (Capt) Percy Manson Swanson from Mackay, Queensland; Major (Maj) Thomas Alexander Ferguson from Sydney; Lt Col Alexander Robert Heron DSO from Bowen, Queensland; Maj Edward Thomas Sheirdan from Richmond River; Capt Charles William Scott French MC and Bar from Charters Towers; Capt William Uren from Townsville, Queensland (killed in action in France 1 September 1918); Chaplain Major Alfred Avery Mills MC from Bendigo, Victoria.