Group portrait of personnel of the 24th Battalion of the 15th Infantry Brigade assembled at the ...

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Accession Number 080835
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Sgt Eastman
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Watsonia
Date made 6 October 1944
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 personnel of the 24th Battalion of the 15th Infantry Brigade assembled at the Watsonia Camp on 6 October 1944 before taking part in the S econd Victory Loan march held in Melbourne on 13 October 1944.
Front Row left to right: VX70358 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Henry Arthur Gordon; VX140116 (V40442) Private (Pte) John Campbell Russell; VX109118 (V40922) Pte Douglas Andrew Haldane; VX104507 (V40160) Pte Ronald James Scott; VX143606 (V40807) Pte Colin William Barry; VX120992 (V40707) L Cpl Thomas McKinlay; V200383 Pte Kevin Joseph Chilton.
Middle Row left to right: VX104534 (V40754) Corporal (Cpl) Norman Albert Warner; VX135508 Cpl Arthur Raymond Newing; VX136242 Pte Laurence Gerald Rene; V40761 Pte Keith Edward Gee. Pte Gee, aged 34, was killed in action on 11 May 1945 while on patrol at the Hongarai river area, Bougainville, Solomon Islands; VX109139 (V155614) Cpl Kevin Vivian O’Brien; VX104411 Pte John Nelson Burfurd; VX103988 Cpl Kevin Answerth.
Back Row left to right: VX147064 Pte Alexander Russell Whitecross; VX117871 (V40927) Cpl Raymond Hirst; VX104428 (V40119) Pte Norman Leslie Deeker; VX139621 (3214392, V40573) Pte John Sidney Rae. Pte Rae, aged 23, was killed in action on 16 April 1945 during fighting at Shinru Creek, Bougainville, Solomon Islands; VX136018 (V40131) Sergeant Andrew Macfarlane; VX109392 (V255551) Pte Peter Alfred Gordon Broman; VX150094 Pte Lawrence Frederick Stowe; VX79006 Pte Walter Lawrence Atkins; VX141610 (V40952) Cpl Albert Allen Jenkins; VX104158 (V40165, V51193) Captain William Macfarlane Irving.