Group portrait of the officers of the 14th Battalion. Left to right, back row; Lieutenant (Lt) ...

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Accession Number E01725
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Messines, Neuve Eglise
Date made 12 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 14th Battalion. Left to right, back row; Lieutenant (Lt) George John Huse, Assistant Adjutant; Lt Francis Thomas Larter; Lt Walter Ernest Manie; Lt Alfred King, Lewis Gun Officer (LGO); Lt John Heber Johnson MC and Bar, Intelligence Officer (killed in action in France on 2 May 1918); Lt Reginald Owen Roxburgh; Lt Ramsay Wood (killed in action in France on 4 July 1918).
Second row: Lt Frederick Gordon Griffiths; Lt Eugene Robert Chubb; Padre Francis William Rolland MC; Lt William Charles Thomas; Lt Richard John Garcia DCM MM; Lt Lindsay Gordon Stevens, Transport Officer; Lt Sydney John Garton DCM; Lt Thomas Henry Griffith MC; Lt William Paul Boland MC and Bar; Lt George Francis Wilson; Lt George Thomas Trewhella MC.
Front row: Captain (Capt) Jack Craven DCM, Signals Officer; Lt Leslie James Bain; Capt Norman Charles Aldridge MC and Bar; Capt Clive Robert Trevor Cole MC, Officer Commanding A Company; Major William Robert Wadsworth DSO MC, Officer Commanding C Company; Lieutenant Colonel Charles Melbourne Johnston DSO MC, Commanding Officer of the Battalion; Capt Reginald Walter Jones MC MM, Officer Commanding B Company; Capt Albert Jacka VC MC and Bar, Officer Commanding D Company; Capt William Robert Moodie Beamond MC; Capt John Arthur Mitchell MC, Adjutant; Capt Ernest Spargo, Medical Officer; Capt Robert Edward Hayes, Quartermaster.