Group portrait of members of the 12th Battalion AIF. Identified in the back row from left to ...

Accession Number H00472
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made France
Date made c 1917-1918
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 members of the 12th Battalion AIF.

Identified in the back row from left to right: 659A Private (Pte) Edward Gadesden Terry from Plenty, Tasmania; 6764 Pte George Henry Long from Copping, Tasmania (later killed in action in France on 22 July 1918); 6580 Pte John Stanley Leech from Stanley, Tasmania; 1821 Pte Frederick Norman Craig (later awarded Military Medal (MM) and killed in action in France on 24 April 1918); 3451 Pte John Bailey from Glenorchy, Tasmania (later died of wounds in France on 28 August 1918); 4322 Pte James Hamilton from Hobart, Tasmania; 7310 Pte Lloyd James Moore from Colebrook, Tasmania; 6853 Pte Francis William Stanley from Huonville, Tasmania; 6573 Pte Berlin Leslie Jones from Franklin, Tasmania; 3330 Pte Frank John Poley from Mathinna, Tasmania; 7242 Pte Clarence Best from Beaconsfield, Tasmania; 2870 Pte Frederick Charles Marshall from Hawthorn, Victoria; 7270 Pte James Durkin from Launceston, Tasmania; and 5496 Pte Francis Joseph Watt from Innisfail, Queensland.

Second row from left to right: 7236 Pte Oliver Bailey from Parattah, Tasmania; 7210 Pte Reginald St Clair Bailey from Parattah; 7340 Pte Sydney Bazel Stevenson from Hobart (later killed in action in France on 24 April 1918); 5731 Pte Henry Percy Jones from Jeri Cho, Tasmania; 5457 Corporal (Cpl) Albert Raabe from Ma Ma Creek, Grantham, Queensland; Lieutenant Alfred Willis Clemes from Hobart; 1209 Cpl John Edward Dillon from South Hobart; 7307 Pte James Nettleford from Beaconsfield; 7260 Pte Talbot Aloysius De Largy D’Alton from Queenstown, Tasmania (later killed in action in France on 18 September 1918); and 6093 Pte John Alfred Taylor from North Hobart.

Front row from left to right: 7274 Pte George Alfred Edward Fenner from Zeehan, Tasmania; 1632 Pte Harry Lionel Paul from Bridgewater, Tasmania; 3381 Pte Frederick James Fraser from Stanley, Tasmania; 7070 Pte Bernard James Redman from Burnie, Tasmania; 166 Pte Alfred Leslie Nichols from Dromedary, Tasmania; 1050 Cpl Stanley Pitchford from Gladstone, Tasmania; and 7295 Pte Frank Arthur John King from Queenstown, Tasmania.