Group portrait of officers of the 48th Battalion. From left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) ...

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Accession Number E01767
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, Meteren
Date made 6 March 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

Group portrait of officers of the 48th Battalion. From left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Geoffrey Paul Leane MC; Lt Robert Scott Rafferty MM; Lt Reginald Charles Bleechmore; Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Charles William Stoerkel MC and Bar; Lt George Dean Mitchell MC DCM; Lt Joseph Arthur Bingley; Lt Edward Gordon Holton; Lt (later Captain) Harry Downes MC MM; Lt Angus Salier Ferguson French Croix de Guerre (killed in action 3 May 1918); Lt Archibald Robert Allen; Lt Wallace Douglas Pritchard; Lt (later Captain) Robert Eldred Potts. Middle row: Lt Alfred Percy Ford MM; Lt Arthur John Gelston MC; Lt Leslie St.John Brown; Lt Hurtle John Burnett MC; Lt Alfred Henry Lawrence; Lt Douglas Harold Clarke; Lt Henry William James; Lt William Bosward Carr MC DCM; Captain (Capt) Gordon Augustus Pavy; Lt Richard Nicholas Fletcher; Lt John Whittle (killed in action 29 March 1918); Capt Norman George Imlay MC; Lt Percy Ernest Nimmo. Front row: Lt Leslie George Challen MC; Capt Thomas Hampton Elliot (killed in action 28 March 1918); Capt Frederick Anderson MC; Major Alban George Moyes MC; Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Raymond Lionel Leane CMG DSO MC; Capt David Austral Twining MC MM French Croix de Guerre; Lt Lavington Lewis Carter MC; Capt Derwas Goring Charles Cumming MC and Bar (killed in action 3 may 1918) Capt Vernon Carlisle Brown MC and bar (Medical Officer); Capt John Cyril Flood (Chaplain).