Informal group portrait of men of the 3rd Field Ambulance before embarkation. Left to right back ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Blackboy Hill
Accession Number A03117
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Midland Junction Studio
Place made Australia: Western Australia, Blackboy Hill
Date made c October 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

Informal group portrait of men of the 3rd Field Ambulance before embarkation. Left to right back row: Driver (Dvr) L A Denbigh, 201 Private (Pte) Donald Neville Cadoux, killed in action on 3 May 1915; 202 Pte John Simpson Kirkpatrick, enlisted as John Simpson (who became known on Gallipoli as 'The Man with the Donkey'), killed in action on 19 May 1915; 179 Pte Frederick Charles Spurgeon, killed at landing on 1 June 1915; 188 Pte Frank Morley Gill, killed at Anzac on 22 August 1915; Dvr W H Griffiths. Middle row: Sergeant Major McBride; Pte Robert J Hastings; Pte J W Gillies; Pte William Henry Baker. Front row kneeling: Pte J Pratley; Lance Corporal A R Davidson; Pte L Darcy.