Group portrait of officers aboard HMAS Melbourne. Identified from left to right (back row): ...

Accession Number EN0153
Collection type Photograph
Object type Handcoloured, Landscape
Physical description Handcoloured, Landscape
Maker Unknown
Place made At sea
Date made 15 June 1917-2 July 1917
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 officers aboard HMAS Melbourne. Identified from left to right (back row): Engineer Lieutenant Howell; Warrant Mechanician John Vincent Corigliano; Warrant Shipwright Watson; Gunner Arthur Brown; Assistant Paymaster James Dunlop Jackson; Lieutenant George Dunbar Moore; Lieutenant Ritchie; Lieutenant Ernest Clifford Rhodes; Temporary Surgeon John Smith; Artificer Engineer Carl Rankins Reid; Gunner (T) Frederick Bolt; Gunner Harold Blomfield Hatton. Second row: Chaplain Andrew O Hardie; Surgeon William James Carr; Lieutenant Kenneth Harry Litton MacKenzie; Acting Commander Ernest Richardson Gloag; Captain Edward Astley Rushton; Engineer Commander Gerald Moore; Paymaster Leslie Sutton Brown; Lieutenant Reginald Charles (or Herbert Victor?) Creer; Lieutenant Louis Claude Rowland. Front row: Temporary Midshipman Geoffrey Edward Shaw, Royal Australian Navy Reserve (RANR); Paymaster's Clerk Alexander David Cravino; Temporary Midshipman George McRimmon Munro, RANR. The motto behind the group reads 'Fear God and Honour the King'. [A better image is held at EN0323.]

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