Group portrait of the officers of the 60th Battalion. Identified from left to right, back row: ...

Place Europe: France
Accession Number E01426
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Enquin
Date made 20 December 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 officers of the 60th Battalion. Identified from left to right, back row: 1446 Lieutenant (Lt) George Buxton Bower; Lt Llewelyn John Howells; Lt R Simpson; 656 Lt John Myles Thorburn, DCM; 2781 Lt Robert Monteith Rolland; 6913 Lt Cyril Gilmore Wellington; 8781 Lt Leonard Gurner (killed in action in France on 14 Jul 1818); Lt William Percy Austin; 141 Lt Herbert William Chambers, MM; and 610 Lt Ernest Arthur Varley.
Second row: 2011 Lt Frank Alexander Stewart Dolphin; 2586 Honorary Captain (Capt) Dennis Joseph George Gleeson; Lt Frederick William Gribble; Lt Charles Roger Buchanan; 2657 Lt Charles Eliel Pizzey, MC; 1043 (VX41234) Lt Leonard Roberts Stillman, MC; Lt Andrew Hamilton MacRoberts; 6864 Lt Malcolm McIntosh Gordon; Lt John Hackland Anderson; Lt Walter St George Sproule; and 25 Lt Charles Mears Hatten.
Front row: 3615 Lt William Watt Leggatt, MC; (later served in World War II with the service number VX44907 and rank of Lieutenant Colonal); Capt Stanley James Nichol; Capt Ronald James Dickson; 19587 Major Harold Lindsay Cameron, DSO MC, Second in Command; 562 Lieutenant Colonel Norman Marshall, DSO MC (later DSO & 2 bars), Commanding Officer; Capt Roy Gordon Webster, Adjutant (later awarded MC); Capt Keith McKeddie Doig, MC, Medical Officer (later served in World War II with service number QX6290 and rank of Brigadier); Capt Charles Hartley Roberts (later killed in action in France on 29 September 1918); and 1875 Lt Eric Arthur Bowen.