Group portrait of the officers of the 52nd Battalion. Identified left to right: back row: ...

Accession Number E01722
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Heuvelland, Locre
Date made 7 March 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 52nd Battalion.
Identified left to right: back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Victor Edward Denne MM (died of disease 26 May 1918); 3364 Lt William Frank Bernard Creech; Lt G. Lee; Lt A. McIntyre; 4281 Lt Lionel Hartley Bibby; 2725 Lt Raymond Frear Lade; 710 Lt (later Captain) Albert Edward Dyos; Lt William Harold Conwell; 557 Lt Henry James Air; Lt Rodger; 772 Lt Eric Raymond Hockings; Lt John Bonnily (killed in action 4 May 1918).
Second row:
Lt R. Dickson; Lt Leonard Charles Boase MC; Lt E. Harris; 2 Lt Andrew Blake Spiers; Lt George Maurice Travers (later MC, died of illness as Acting Corporal in Second World War); 1862 Lt Frank Fearnside; 251 Lt Moreton Cameron Croker MC; Captain (Capt) William Frederick Wilmot (died of wounds 25 April 1918); Lt Alfred Osland Bilson MC; Lt A. Rowe; 1610 Lt Christopher James Ivory; Lt Richard Barton; Lt Clarence Beaumont Marshall (killed in action 5 April 1918); Lt Charles Wylie Wilson.
Front row:
Lt Irvine Julius Barton MC (died of wounds 5 April 1918); Capt Frank Charles Wilson; Major (Maj) William Alexander Craies (killed in action 25 April 1918); Capt William Howard Christophers; Capt Alexander Fraser MC; Chaplain Donald Burns Blackwood MC; Maj (later Lieutenant Colonel) Richard Francis Fitzgerald DSO; Lieutenant Colonel John Lawrence Whitham CMG DSO; Maj Leslie Gemmel Tassie DSO (MO); 407 Capt Claude Henry Stubbings MC; Capt William Kennedy MC; Capt R. H. Williams.