An outdoors group portrait of the General Officer Commanding, Brigadier-General (Brig Gen) J ...

Accession Number E04003
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Wallonie, Hainaut, Loverval
Date made 5 January 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

An outdoors group portrait of the General Officer Commanding, Brigadier-General (Brig Gen) J Heane, CB, CMG, DSO, and unidentified officers of the Staff of 2nd Australian Infantry Brigade. The group is outside the Chateau de Merode, where the 2nd Brigade Headquarters was billeted from 18 December 1918 to 22 March 1919. The two officers on either side of the Brig Gen are wearing Military Cross ribbons, the officer (right) also has one wound stripe on his lower left hand sleeve.