Group portrait of the General Staff of the Australian Corps Headquarters outside the Chateau at ...

Accession Number E00540
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Henencourt, France: Picardie, Somme, Henencourt
Date made March 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 the General Staff of the Australian Corps Headquarters outside the Chateau at Henencourt. Left to right, back row: Captain (Capt) C R E Jennings, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General; Capt N Clowes, SCRA; Capt C Sheldon, Staff Officer to the Chief Engineer; unidentified; Lieutenant M Scott, Royal Regiment of Artillery; Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) A D Powell DSO, Signals; Lt Col Horace Frank Witham, Assistant Adjutant General; Colonel (Col) Smith, Assistant Provost Marshal; Capt Henry Champion de Crespigny, Aide de Camp (ADC) to General Officer Commanding (GOC). Middle row: Capt Osborne, 'G'; Capt C Fletcher, Deputy Assistant Director of Army Postal Services (DADAPS); Capt R C Seys, RGA, SO to GOC RA; Brigadier General (Brig Gen) L Fraser, BGHA; Brig Gen C E Lotbiniere, CB CSI and CIE; Col Manifold, Deputy Director of Medical Services (DDMS) CBIMS; Lieutenant Levy, French Mission; Capt R G Chirnside, ADC to GOC; Major (Maj) J McConaghy DSO, Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster General (DAA QMG); Maj Churchill, Camp Commandant. Front row: Lt Col M G Taylor DSO, Royal Engineers AQMG; Col Austin CB CMG, ADOP; General Cyril Bingham Brudenell White CB DSO, Senior General Staff Officer; General (Gen) Sir William Riddell Birdwood KCSI KCMG CB CIE DSO and ADC; Gen Carruthers, DA and QMG CB CMG; Maj W Donald, DADMS; Maj Butler, Intelligence.