Group portrait of the Australian Tug of War Team competing at the Inter Allied Games held at the ...

Accession Number E05344
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Paris
Date made June 1919-July 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

Group portrait of the Australian Tug of War Team competing at the Inter Allied Games held at the Pershing Stadium, Paris. Identified from left to right, back row: 27839 Corporal (Cpl) Walter Edward Clarence Grose, AIF Headquarters; Private (Pte) G Smith; 51093 Sergeant (Sgt) Vernon William Daniel, 4th Battalion; 5576 Pte Robert Mark Cuskey, 18th Battalion; and 38813 Sgt Thomas Brockett Sorrell, Australian Army Pay Corps.
Second row: 73 Sgt Matthew Henry Healey, Australian Army Service Corps; 9662 Driver Andrew McGill, AIF Headquarters; Cpl G Masters; Lt Charles Joseph Kelaher, 13th Battalion; 1822 Sgt George Weirth Drysdale, 15th Battalion; 6875 Lance Corporal Edward Shumack, 35th Battalion; and 7331 Pte Berton Flick, 31st Battalion.
Front row: 1327 Corporal (Cpl) Percy Charles Woolfitt, AIF Headquarters; 55874 Pte George Ernest Parsons, 9th Training Battalion; 54174 Driver Hilton Hedley Carmichael, 1st Australian Field Bakery; and 2942 Cpl Cyril Raymond Lee, AIF Headquarters. Note the rope in front of the foreground.

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