| Accession Number | E02589 |
|---|---|
| Collection type | Photograph |
| Object type | Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative |
| Maker |
Unknown Australian Official Photographer |
| Place made | France: Picardie, Somme, Corbie Albert Area, Querrieu |
| Date made | 27 June 1918 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
Group portrait of the Officers of the 24th Battalion. Identified from left to right, back row: ...
Description
Group portrait of the Officers of the 24th Battalion. Identified from left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Stanley George Thompson; Lt Ernest Victor White DCM; Lt William Burns Gow MC; Lt John Foster Gear MC (killed in action (KIA) in France on 5 October 1918); Lt Hugh Allan Gleadow; Lt Andrew Harte Stranaghan; Lt John Thomas Pocknell MC; Lt Ernest Milton Martin (KIA in France on 31 August 1918); Lt William Graham MC; Lt Cecil Roy Boyd; Lt John Stephen Robinson MM.
Second row: Lt Clifford Charles Burge (KIA in France on 14 August 1918); Lt Herbert Baxter; Lt Walter Thomas West MC MM; Lt Horace Webster Clough MC MM; Lt Robert George Nichols MM; Lt Otto James Sweetland; Lt Eric Henry Drummond Edgerton DSO MM & Bar (KIA in France on 11 August 1918); Lt Harold Joseph Cunningham; Lt Newton Rae Calvert; Lt William Dean Scott.
Third row: Lt Eric Sullivan Baldock MC; Lt George David Pollington MC MM; Captain (Capt) Adrian Ball DCM; Capt John Harry Fletcher (KIA in France on 5 October 1918); Major (Maj) Donald Dunbar Coutts DSO, Regimental Medical Officer; Capt Francis Palmer Selleck MC; Lieutenant Colonel William Edward James DSO & two Bars; Maj William Henry Ellwood MC; Capt Leslie Stewart Marchant; Capt John Austin Mahony MC (KIA in France on 9 October 1918); Maj Thomas Alphonsus Campbell, Chaplain; Lt Alexander Stuart MC.
Front row: Lt Richard John Wells, TO; Lt Albert Edward Middleton; Lt James Alexander McNaught, Regimental Quartermaster.