Group portrait of the officers of the 36th Battalion at Meteren in Northern France. Identified ...

Accession Number E01530
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Nord Pas de Calais, Nord, Meteren, France: Nord Pas de Calais, Nord, Meteren
Date made 24 January 1918
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 the officers of the 36th Battalion at Meteren in Northern France. Identified back row from left to right,: Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) David Knight from Brunswick, Victoria (later died of wounds in France on 8 May 1918); Lieutenant (Lt) Charles Sydney Brandreth from Randwick, NSW; Lt Ronald Stanley Hobbs MC from Woolahra, NSW (died of wounds in France on 5 April 1918); Lt Ernest Clyde Barton from Wollar, NSW; 2nd Lt Noel Ainslie Paton from Blackheath, NSW; Lt Henry Joseph Watson from Newcastle, NSW; Lt John Roy O'Connell from West Maitland, NSW (later killed in action in France on 2 June 1918); and Lt Leonard John Jobson from West Brunswick, Victoria. Second row: Lt Frederick Albert Hayward from Riverstone, NSW; Lt Wilfred Newman Dann from Eastbourne, England; unidentified (slightly behind Dann); Lt Theodore Charles Macaw from Moonee Ponds, Victoria; Lt Harold James Cole from North Goulburn, NSW; Lt Alexander Henry Hocking from Mosman, NSW; Captain (Capt) William James Gordon MC from Rose Bay, NSW; Lt John Raymond Paul from Rose Bay; Lt George William Herbert Perkins from Stanmore, NSW; Lt John Perry Bradford from Lower Sandy Bay, Tasmania; Lt Herbert Reginald Mailer from Zetland, NSW; Lt Alexander Douglas Cameron from Hillgrove, NSW (killed in action in France on 4 April 1918); Lt Arthur William Townsend from Mallangance, NSW; and Lt Gordon Mott Cox from Nelligen, NSW. Front row: Chaplain Thomas Stanislaus Power from Malvern, Victoria; Capt Claude Esdale Prior from Artarmon, NSW; Major (Maj) Bert Burnell Rodd from Newcastle, NSW; Maj John Ambrose McDowell from Coogee, NSW; Capt Thomas Roger Macnee from Balmain, NSW (killed in action in France on 12 April 1918); Capt John Edward Wallace Bushelle MC from Sydney, NSW (killed in action in France on 6 April 1918); Capt Richard Gadd from Bronte, NSW; Capt Eric MacAllan Gordon Glassford MC from Kew, Victoria, Regimental Medical Officer (RMO).