Group portrait of members of the 29/46 Infantry Battalion football team on the ground before the ...

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Accession Number 094250
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Pacific Islands: Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Jacquinot Bay Area
Date made 22 July 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 members of the 29/46 Infantry Battalion football team on the ground before the start of play. They played against the 22 Infantry Battalion team, another 4 Infantry Brigade unit, during the first inter-battalion Australian Rules football match.
Back row, left to right: VX106046 Sergeant (Sgt) P. V. Stephens; VX118776 Private (Pte) H. G. Heard; VX148889 Sgt F. Pemberton; V211058 Pte S. W. Rule; VX117184 Captain R. F. Peckham; VX81961 Pte N. Mandlesdorf; VX106045 Signalman S. Small; V125034 Pte A. C. Brimacombe; VX147414 Sgt J. J. Crawford; SX37199 Pte C. Christinson; VX147422 Pte R. H. Schroeter.
Front row: VX118789 Pte W. J. L. Nathan; VX132725 Pte H. J. Bond; V200402 Pte F. P. (Felix) Furlong (team number 5); V39980 Pte C. A. Wilson; VX144410 Sgt A. Hart, Captain; VX75014 Pte W. H. Vening; VX109007 Sgt J. A. Strahan; VX104187 Lieutenant C. C. MacQueen; VX144478 Pte J. A. Savage.