Group portrait of members of a militia unit, possibly the Army Service Corps, 2nd Cavalry ...

Accession Number P03561.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1925-1926
Conflict Period 1920-1929
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of members of a militia unit, possibly the Army Service Corps, 2nd Cavalry Division, and two members of the 4th Brigade, a Regimental Medical Officer (RMO), and a Regimental Veterinary Officer (RVO). These soldiers are wearing khaki puggarees with a central white stripe on their hats. Identified from left to right are: Back row; Lieutenant (Lt) R Telfer, Quartermaster; Captain (Capt) D Lindsay, Officer Commanding (OC), Headquarters (HQ) Wing; Lt Hughes, HQ Wing; Lt W Veness, HQ Wing; Lt McQuiggan, OC, A Squadron (Sqn); Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Piero Francis Fiaschi OBE VD, RMO (appointed Honorary Colonel (Hon Col), AMF, 1 April 1932, Unattached List); Lt A H Young, A Sqn; Lt Arnott, A Sqn. Front Row; Lt Wynn, Transport; Capt Whitehouse, RVO; Major (Maj) Mackenzie, Brigade Major, 4th Brigade; Colonel (Col) A Mills, Commander, 4th Brigade; Maj Halfden Ivanoe Wikner ED, Commanding Officer (appointed Hon Col, 31 December 1941, and worked as an accountant at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT); Maj Garrett Ingamills Adcock VD, Officer Commanding, B Sqn (later appointed Temporary Lt Col, 18th Battalion, AMF, 30 April 1940); Capt J H Shreeve, Adjutant, Australian Instructional Corps; and Lt R E Weeks, B Sqn.