Outdoor group portrait of the officers of the 7th Field Artillery Brigade at Bailleul, France. ...

Accession Number E01539
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made France: Nord Pas de Calais, Nord, Vieux Berquin
Date made 25 January 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoor group portrait of the officers of the 7th Field Artillery Brigade at Bailleul, France. Identified from left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Arthur Wreford Ellis Newnham from Goulburn Valley, Victoria; Lt Alfred Keith MacKey from Mosman, NSW; Lt Sydney James Jenkins from London, UK; Lt Alexander Stratford Nivison from Walcha, NSW; Lt William Rorke Johnston from Aldgate, South Australia; Lt Eric John William Pope from Wahroonga, NSW; and Lt Kenneth Darnton Watson MC from Bendigo, Victoria. Middle row: Lt Clifford Nicholas Williams from Caulfield, Victoria; Lt Eric Sinclair MacKellar from Chatswood, NSW; Lt John Reginald Robertson from Footscray, Victoria; Captain (Capt) Edward Michael Neylan MC from Tumut, NSW; Lt William Robert Bates from Balwyn, Victoria; Lt John Richard Windeyer from Newcastle, NSW; Lt Archibald John Peyton from Sydney, NSW; Lt John Malyon Cook MM from Hawthorn, Victoria; Lt Kenneth George Binnie from Quirindi, NSW; and Lt William Henderson Eales from Lilydale, Victoria. Front row: Lt Kenneth Coventry Radford from Quirindi (killed in action in France on 1 April 1918); Capt Leslie James Colquhoun from Albury, NSW; Major (Maj) John Morphett Irwin from Glenelg, South Australia (later awarded DSO); Maj Thomas Alfred Jack Playfair DSO from Waverley, NSW; Maj William Leslie Marfell DSO from Warnambool, Victoria; Capt Gerald Vincent Moriarty MC from Brisbane, Queensland; and Capt Cedric Murray Samson MC from Sydney (later promoted to Maj and awarded bar to MC).