Group portrait of officers of the 12th Battalion. From left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) ...

Accession Number E01785
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Messines, Neuve Eglise
Date made 23 February 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 12th Battalion. From left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Percival Francis Reed MC (killed in action 24 April 1918); Lt Arthur Dunlop Andersen; Lt Eustace Ernest Terry MM (killed in action 25 August 1918); Lt Arthur Luke Davey MC MM; Lt Roger Britten Good MC; Lt Mark Bensley; Lt Kenneth Grant Jacob (killed in action 30 May 1918); Lt Arnold Talbot Wertheimer (killed in action 4 June 1918); Lt Edmund Bromley King (died of wounds 17 April 1918). Middle row: Lt George Frederick Gould MC; Lt Elmer Winfred Drake Laing MC (killed in action 8 May 1918); Lt Stanley Vivian Gibson; Lt (later Captain) Edward Alfred Shepherd; Lt Robert Gordon Walduck; Lt Harold Montague Sandy MC; Second Lieutenant William James Kelly; Lt Loudoun Hector Bright MacLeod; Lt William Samuel Sayer (killed in action 24 April 1918); Lt Squire Walter Dobson; Lt Richard Wellesley Fletcher MC; Lt Alfred Willis Clemes. Front row: Lt Alfred Ernest Potts MM; Captain (Capt) Ivan Nello Holyman MC; Capt Henry Arthur Hayden (Chaplain); Capt Cyril Norman Richardson MC; Capt James Mann Henderson (Medical Officer); Major (Maj) Herbert Angus McPherson; Lieutenant Colonel Charles Hazell Elliott CMG DSO and Bar (Commanding Officer); Maj John Askin Foster (killed in action 23 August 1918); Capt William Richard Jorgensen; Capt Harry Edward Spotswood MC; Capt Donald McLeod MC; Lt Joseph James Keen.