Outdoor group portrait of members of the AIF athletics team which took part in the Inter-Allied ...

Accession Number D00674
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London, Lambeth, Herne Hill
Date made June 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

Outdoor group portrait of members of the AIF athletics team which took part in the Inter-Allied games in Paris in June and July 1919, at the team’s training headquarters in London. Some are wearing a vest with the AIF rising sun emblem. Identified from left to right, back row: 12460 Driver Leslie Harold Parkinson, Australian Motor Transport Section from Wyuna Wyuna, Victoria; Lieutenant (Lt) Lionel Richard Vivian Spencer, Australian Flying Corps from Melbourne, Victoria; 35022 Bombardier William Murray, 5th Field Artillery Brigade from East Prahran, Victoria; Lt John Brake, 3rd Division Artillery from Mont Albert, Victoria; Lt Joseph Lindley Scales, DSO MM, 24th Battalion from Mitta Mitta, Victoria; 1334 Lance Corporal William Johnson, 17th Battalion from Clarence River, NSW; and Private (Pte) H Brown, 7th Field Ambulance.
Second row: 2270 Private (Pte) James Josiah Agnew, 17th Battalion from Kellyville NSW; 129 Sergeant Thomas Sinton Hewitt, 39th Battalion from St Kilda, Victoria; 8069 Sergeant Clifford George Manley, 10th Australian Army Service Corps from Auburn, Victoria; 37579 Gunner David Turnbull, 14th Field Artillery Brigade from Port Melbourne, Victoria; 4433 Private Collin Stewart Hibbard, 20th Battalion from Cowra, NSW; and 10449 Bombardier Angus MacDonald, 2nd Divisional Ammunition Column from Windsor, Victoria.
Front row: 6552 Pte Thomas Frazer, 20th Battalion from Enmore, NSW; 6751 Private Leslie Arthur Dolton, 44th Battalion from Claremont, Western Australia; and 2810 Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant Cecil Griffiths, 7th Field Ambulance from Darlinghurst, NSW.

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