Group portrait of the Commanding Officer and other officers of the 3rd Battalion, AIF, at ...

Accession Number H18915A
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney
Date made September 1914
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Group portrait of the Commanding Officer and other officers of the 3rd Battalion, AIF, at Kensington racecourse. Identified in the back row, from left to right: Lieutenant (Lt) Cedric Errol Meyer Brodziak (later awarded the DSO and killed in action in France on 31 August 1918); Captain (Capt) Ronald Burns (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915); Lt William Christian Beeken (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 6 August 1915); Capt John Carandini Wilson (later died on 21 May 1915 of wounds received at Gallipoli); Lt Ronald Orlando Cowey (later promoted to Major); Lt David McConaghy (later promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, awarded CMG and DSO and died of wounds in France on 9 April 1918); Capt Leonard Sydney Kent Stevenson, Transport Officer; and Lt Lawrence Whistler Street (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 23 May 1915).
Second row from left to right: Capt John Lewis Chester; Capt Charles Edward Leer (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915); Lt Edward MacFarlane MacFarlane (later promoted to Captain and died on 2 August 1915 from wounds received at Gallipoli); Lt Colin Austin (later Temporary Major and killed in action at Gallipoli on 8 August 1915); Lt Harold Edmund Butler (later Captain);
Lt Eric George Goldring (wounded in action at Gallipoli and returned to Australia in March 1916);
Lt Owen Glendower Howell-Price (later awarded the DSO and MC and died of wounds in France on 4 November 1916); and Lt George Edward McDonald (later Captain).
Third row from left to right: Capt George Wall, Quartermaster (later promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and awarded CMG); Capt John Willoughby Butler Bean, Medical Officer; Major Alfred Joshua Bennett DSO (later Lieutenant Colonel and awarded CMG); Lieutenant Colonel Robert Haylock Owen, Commanding Officer (later awarded CMG); Capt Ernest Samuel Brown, Adjutant (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 8 August 1915); Capt Malcolm St John Lamb (later Lieutenant Colonel); Capt Thomas Oscar Smith (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 7 May 1915) and Capt William Bowman Douglas (later died on 5 May 1915 of wounds received at Gallipoli).
Front row from left to right: Lt Harold William Goldring (later wounded at Gallipoli and returned to Australia in March 1916); and Lt Kenneth John Hinde (later killed in action at Gallipoli on 5 May 1915)

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