Troops of 16 Infantry Battalion (Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia) marching from the ...

Place Oceania: Australia, Northern Territory, Darwin, Dripstone
Accession Number 081845
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Buchanan, Robert John
Place made Australia: Northern Territory, Darwin, Dripstone
Date made 27 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

Troops of 16 Infantry Battalion (Cameron Highlanders of Western Australia) marching from the training camp area at Dripstone Caves, Northern Territory to the beach. The primary role of the 16 Infantry Battalion was carrying out garrison duties.
Those numbered are:
1. WX32973 Captain Raymond Sidney Docrwa
2. WX9701 Lieutenant Harold Raymond Bickford
3. VX137393 Private (Pte) Samuel Rueben Cue
4. VX123171 Pte Harold Thomas Hicks (later 26 Battalion)
5. W22333 Pte Norman Clare Keally
6. VX 118089 Pte Edwin Silas Brown
7. VX102402 (previously V56286) Pte Bernard Patrick Hayes
8. W22320 Pte Hugh MacLeod
9. VX88372 Pte John Albert Bacon
10. VX88430 Pte Kenneth Roy Taylor
11. WX29855 Corporal (later Lance Sergeant) Ross Murray Foreman
12. WX29870 Pte Harry Allen Benaim