Seven 50th Battalion Company Commanders holding a meeting at Carinya Post on the front line of ...

Accession Number C00076
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Ottoman Empire: Palestine, Bir el Habeita
Date made January 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

Seven 50th Battalion Company Commanders holding a meeting at Carinya Post on the front line of the Suez Canal defences, 12 miles out in the Sinai desert from the Canal. Known to be pictured are Captain (Capt) Randall Lance Rhodes MC & Bar; Capt Richard Gladstone Wilton; Capt Patrick Howard (?) Auld MC & Bar; Lieutenant (Lt) John Albert Smith; Major Mervyn James Herbert; Capt H Morris MC; and Lt Esson Thomas Rule.