Group portrait of No 2 Machine Gun Platoon, Headquarters Company, 2/48th Infantry Battalion with ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Atherton Tableland, Ravenshoe
Accession Number 087678
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Rainsford, Ross John
Place made Australia: Queensland, North Queensland, Atherton Tableland, Ravenshoe
Date made 21 March 1945
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of No 2 Machine Gun Platoon, Headquarters Company, 2/48th Infantry Battalion with Lieutenant C W Norgate, Platoon Commander. Identified, left to right, back row: VX38956 Sergeant (Sgt) Frederick Charles Kemp; QX42045 Private (Pte) Charles Leslie Kingston; SX6865 Pte Robert Thomas McLaren, killed in action on 5 May 1945 in Borneo (Tarakan); WX26721 Pte Stanley Perkins; VX82959 Pte Ernest Hyman Finklestein; SX18484 Pte Allbert Leslie Hansen; WX26619 Pte John Louis Della-Vedova; Pte George Ratcliffe; VX82912 Pte Victor Leslie Johnston; WX10400 Sgt Colin Cecil Bell; SX7669 Corporal (Cpl) William Miller. Middle row: VX120467 Sgt George Sinclair McCombe; NX168375 Pte Alfred Alexander Threadgate; SX9585 Sgt Kenneth McMillan Leggett; SX15567 Pte Dudley Hawke; VX83077 Pte Archibald Burns; VX82943 Pte Roy Ernest Barrett; SX15760 Pte Leslie Henry Loxton; NX174259 Pte Albert Neville Lightfoot; VX83060 Pte Leslie Douglas Rowe; NX171998 Pte William Edward Lister. Front row: VX83270 Pte E Smith; VX83042 Cpl William Russell Hamilton; SX15596 Pte Stanley Joseph Ashenden; VX82886 Cpl James William West; QX38933 Lieutenant Cecil Francis William Norgate; VX82989 Pte Neil Gow Simonds; VX101708 Pte O Cranswick; SX15002 Pte Cyril Gale; VX82973 Pte John Thomas Maher.