Group portrait of members of the 2/19th Battalion. The Battalion was captured by the Japanese in ...

Accession Number	P03727.002
Collection type	Photograph
Object type	Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of members of the 2/19th Battalion. The Battalion was captured by the Japanese in the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 and most of the men were killed in action (KIA) or held as prisoners of war (POW). Identified from left to right, back row: NX65738 Sergeant (Sgt) Robert Halley Gibson (died of injuries in Malaya on 17 August 1941); either NX35932 Sgt Donald James Carn (KIA in Malaya on 19 January 1942) or NX56121 Lieutenant (Lt) Vernon Stanley Carn; NX36074 Sgt Roy Vincent Hallinan; NX52477 Sgt (later Lt) Neville Ford Douglas (POW); NX52528 Staff Sergeant (SSgt) Eric Clifford Mitchell (POW); NX14955 Sgt Harold Ernest Burchell (POW); NX56130 Sgt Arthur Henry Holm (POW).
Second row: NX35271 Lance Sergeant (LSgt) Gregory Blaxland Parramore (KIA in Malaya on 9 February 1942); NX51735 Sgt Christopher Guerin (POW); NX55098 Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2) Oswald James Layton (KIA in Malaya on 10 February 1942); NX52485 Sgt (later Lt) Maurice Joseph Brennan (POW); NX52530 SSgt Samuel Edward Cameron (POW, returned to Australia and died of illness on 21 October 1945); NX52465 LSgt (later Lt) Bertram Thomas Phillips (POW); NX53597 Acting Sergeant Frank Dargin; NX52124 Sgt John Allan Thompson (POW); NX57909 Sgt William Gordon Minto (POW).
Front row: NGX141 Sgt Ronald John Pascoe (KIA in Malaya on 21 January 1942); NX52532 Sgt (later Lt) Ralph Everett Sanderson (POW); NX55227 WO2 Valentine Charles Caspar Middleton (POW); NX60112 WO2 John James Loy (POW); NX65334 WO1 John Menzies Gillespie, Regimental Sergeant Major (POW); NX65918 WO2 Thomas Ingram Moody (KIA in Malaya on 22 January 1942); NX65522 WO2 Irving Robert Henrys, Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant; NX33624 WO2 Edward Walter Turner (POW and died at sea en route to Japan on 6 September 1944); NX59399 WO2 Frank Bertram Brady (presumed KIA in Malaya on 11 February 1942); NX36306 SSgt Roy Edmonds (POW); Sgt Burgess; NX36370 Sgt Desmond Henry Mulcahy (POW); NX51061 SSgt William Allan Methven (POW).