An outdoors group portrait of the Commanding Officer, Adjutant, and members of the Headquarters ...

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Accession Number E04224
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Wallonie, Hainaut, Charleroi, Morialme
Date made 29 January 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

An outdoors group portrait of the Commanding Officer, Adjutant, and members of the Headquarters Details of the 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade. Identified are; Interpreter Gregoire, wearing a Military Medal ribbon, (front row, second from the left); Lieutenant (Lt) L C Wade (front row, third from the left); Major Gerald George Hogan MC (front row, fourth from the left) . After the war Hogan was the Australian Crown Law Officer at Rabaul, New Britain. He was interned by the Japanese early in 1942 and died when the transport ship Montevideo Maru was sunk by the American submarine USS Sturgeon near the Philippines on 1 July 1942; Captain C C Hains (front row, fifth from the left); Lt R A Ayrton, wearing RFC wings, (seventh from the left). All other soldiers are unidentified.