Some of the officers of the 2/15th Infantry Battalion who were in action in the Finschhafen area ...

Places	Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Fortification Point Sio Area, Kelanoa Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Fortification Point Sio Area, Sio
Accession Number	070046
Collection type	Photograph
Object type	Negative
Maker	Rainsford, Keith Carr
Place made	New Guinea1: Huon Peninsula, Fortification Point Sio Area, Kelanoa
Date made	23 January 1944
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Some of the officers of the 2/15th Infantry Battalion who were in action in the Finschhafen area and the pursuit to Sio in New Guinea. From left to right: Back row: NX139075 Chaplain Thomas Jackson Yates (Church of England); QX815 Capt David Barnard Weir; QX6171 Capt Edward Fitzmaurice Luther; QX2990 Lt Horace George Childs; QX2995 Capt James Kay; QX11366 Lt John Wharton Cunningham; VX115586 Lt Joseph Alan Railton; NGX69 Lt Francis Robert Wilson; QX12922 Lt Vivian John Macaulay; NX60324 Lt George Vardon Helm; QX5431 Lt Donald Parker. Centre row: QX6224 Captain (Capt) Malcolm Ryrie Stuart; QX6226 Capt Lennard Snell MC; QX6238 Major (Maj) Sydney Perry Newcomb; NX457 Lieutenant Colonel Colin Henry Grace, DSO, Commanding Officer; QX6221 Maj Roderick Albert Suthers; QX6231 Capt William Clarence Heatley; QX6228 Capt Tasman Peter Davies. Front row: QX17354 Lieutenant (Lt) Alexander Anthony Rea; QX949 Lt William Gall Murison; QX1720 Lt Hugh Maxwell Douglas; QX19571 Lt John Gordon Bridgford (Died of Illness 24 September 1945); NX57274 Lt Rupert James Raynor.