Group portrait of Officer Cadets of the First Graduating Class, Royal Military College, Duntroon, ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Duntroon
Accession Number A04189
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film polyester negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: Australian Capital Territory, Canberra
Date made 1914
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 Officer Cadets of the First Graduating Class, Royal Military College, Duntroon, Canberra, ACT posing with an artillery piece in front of Duntroon House.
Back row, left to right: Staff Cadet Charles Harold McClelland from New Zealand; Staff Cadet David Richmond Brown from Katoomba, NSW (served as Major with the 4th Battalion, awarded a Military Cross (MC)); Sergeant Norman Clowes from Warwick, Queensland (Major in the Artillery, MC, Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and French Croix De Guerre); Staff Cadet Christopher Carrington from New Zealand (DOW 8 Oct 1916, France); Staff Cadet Clarence William Wolfenden from Malvern, Victoria (Lieutenant in the Artillery, killed in action 11 May 1915, Gallipoli); Corporal Noel Ernest Biden from East Maitland, NSW (Lieutenant with the Field Company Engineers, died of pneumonia 23 December 1915, Greece); Staff Cadet Ralph Carlyle Geoffrey Prisk from Hyde Park, South Australia (Captain with the 6th Battalion); Corporal John Heathcote Newmarch from Sydney, NSW, in front of Prisk (Captain in the Artillery, MC); Staff Cadet George Herbert Capes from Elsternwick, Victoria (Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion); Staff Cadet John Stewart Whitelaw from Hawthorn, Victoria (Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion); Staff Cadet William Archibald Shuldham Dunlop from Charlton, Victoria (Major in the 4th Light Horse Regiment); Corporal (N W M) William Norman McDonald Weir from New Zealand; and Sergeant Cyril Albert Clowes from Warwick, Queensland (Major in the Artillery, MC, DSO, and Serbian Order of the White Eagle, Third Class. Brother of Norman Clowes, also in back row).
Second row, standing: Corporal George Frederick Wootten from Mosman, NSW (Major in the 1st Battalion, DSO); Corporal John Henry Francis Pain from North Sydney, NSW (Major in the 2nd Battalion, MC and DSO); Lance Corporal Sydney Fairbairn Rowell from Lockleys, South Australia (Lieutenant in the 3rd Light Horse Regiment); Corporal Reginald Miles from New Zealand; Sergeant Arthur Roland Selby from West Leederville, Western Australia, sitting on cannon (Lieutenant in the 11th Battalion); Battery Sergeant Major (BSM) Alexander Moore Forbes from Toorak, Victoria (Major in the Artillery, MC); Colour Sergeant John Raymond Broadbent from Leichhardt, NSW (Captain in the 1st Light Horse Regiment); Lance Corporal Douglas Isaac Charles Bryan from New Zealand; Corporal William Ivan Kirke Jennings from New Zealand; Sergeant William Alan Beevor Steele from Gympie, Queensland (Major in the 2nd Light Horse Regiment); and Staff Cadet Eric Lacy Vowles from Melbourne, Victoria (Major in the Artillery, MC and Italian Silver Medal for Military Valour).
Front row, sitting: Lance Corporal Allan Joseph Boase from Caboolture, Queensland (Major in the 9th Battalion); Sergeant William Henry Dawkins from Ferntree Gully, Victoria (Lieutenant in the Engineers, killed in action 20 May 1915, Gallipoli); Sergeant John Morphett Irwin from Glenelg, South Australia (Lieutenant in the Artillery, DSO); Corporal Eric Wilkes Talbot Smith from Adelaide, SA (Lieutenant 10th Battalion, DOW 30 April 1915, Cairo, Egypt); Staff Cadet Vincent Gordon Jervis, from New Zealand, sitting on the ground in front; Staff Cadet Penistan James Patterson from Ballarat, Victoria (Lieutenant in the 12th Battalion, killed in action 25 April 1915, Gallipoli); Staff Cadet Price Jacob Morgan from Launceston, Tasmania (Major in the Artillery, DOW 4 April 1917, France); Staff Cadet Dudley Freeman Hardy from Kadina, South Australia (Captain in the 8th Battalion, killed in action 18 August 1916, France); Corporal Walter James Urquhart from Brisbane, Queensland (Major in the Artillery); Staff Cadet William Roy Hodgson from Victoria (Captain 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, French Croix de Guerre); and Corporal Robert Logan from New Zealand.