Outdoor group portrait of officers of the 2nd Pioneer Battalion. Identified back row, from left ...

Accession Number P00998.031
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoor group portrait of officers of the 2nd Pioneer Battalion. Identified back row, from left to right: Captain Richard Hastings Hudson, (medical officer, later awarded MC); Lieutenant (Lt) Alfred Douglas Nevein (later awarded MC); Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Charles Edward Donnelly (transport officer); Lt Ivan Dimant (later awarded MC); Lt Walter Richard Houlder; 2nd Lt James Charles Mullarkey; 2nd Lt Frederick Griffiths Walker; 2nd Lt Frederick John Wingrave (signal officer); 2nd Lt Joseph Alvin Armitage; and 2nd Lt Harold Edward Manders. Middle row: Lt Jock Nicholson; Lt Archibald Niven Sinclair (later awarded MC); Lt Henry McCloskey (wounded in the neck at Pozieres and later lost his leg when fighting on the Somme; subsequently awarded the MC); Lt George Louden; Lt Andres Campbell Ahlston; Lt Rupert Carl Wertheim (later playing Davis Cup tennis); Lt Aubrey Morton Moss; Honorary Lieutenant Phillip Elmhirst Potts (Quartermaster); and Lt Watts. Front row: Captain (Capt) John Valentine Needham; Capt Ernest Ederblom King; Capt Lowell Thomas Pedler (later MC); Major Rupert Reginald Hockley (died of wounds in Belgium on 20 September 1917); Lieutenant Colonel Frederick William Gadsby Annand (later awarded DSO) (Commanding Officer); Capt John Francis Donnelly (adjutant); Capt Harry Frood Arnall; Capt George Taylor (killed in action in Belgium on 29 September 1917); Capt George Duncan Shaw (later awarded MC).