Group portrait of members of the 31st Battalion. Identified left to right: back right: Private ...

Accession Number P03633.004
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker M Bennett, Bulford Camp Studio
Place made United Kingdom: England, Wiltshire, Bulford
Date made c July 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of members of the 31st Battalion. Identified left to right: back right: Private (Pte) V Dyer; 2320 Pte Hugh Angus Falle (died of pneumonia in Rouen, France, 5 January 1917); Pte E Taylor (probably 3639A Ernest Taylor killed in action at Ribemont, France 22 July 1918); 2456 Pte Leslie Shoemark of Lake Bathurst, NSW, (died 25 January 1917 in France); 2357A Pte Thomas Ernest Keech. Second row: 2427 Private William Eugene Swiney; Pte P Curran (probably 2300 Patrick James Curran); Pte T West (probably 2440 Thomas Francis West); Pte C Marshall (probably 2368 Charles Marshall). Front row: 2359 Pte Godfrey James Kiernan; 2322 Pte Henry Farley; Pte C Walker (probably 2447 Charles Arthur Walker); Pte D Smith (possibly 3886 David William Smith); 2356 Pte John Victor Keen of Artarmon, NSW (killed in action on 26 November 1917 at Messines, Belgium).