Outdoors group portrait taken at Westham Camp, Dorset, England. The eight identified soldiers are ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom, England, Dorset, Weymouth
Accession Number H00176
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Abrahams, S T
Place made United Kingdom: England, United Kingdom: England, Dorset, Weymouth
Date made c 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Outdoors group portrait taken at Westham Camp, Dorset, England. The eight identified soldiers are all Australian Victoria Cross recipients. Identified from left to right, back row: 1804 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) John Carroll, 33rd Battalion; unidentified; 2389 Corporal (Cpl) Jorgan Christian Jensen, 50th Battalion; unidentified; 4195 Cpl Thomas James Bede Kenny, 2nd Battalion; unidentified; unidentified; 506 Sergeant (Sgt) Reginald Ray Inwood, 10th Battalion.
Second row: 2902 Sgt John Woods Whittle, DCM, 12th Battalion; Major Elliot Frank Playford OBE, 43rd Battalion and Camp Commandant of Westham Camp; 4061 Sgt Stanley Robert McDougall, MM, 47th Battalion; unidentified.
Front row: 1327 Cpl Philip Davey, MM, 10th Battalion; unidentified; 114 Sgt Walter Peeler, 3rd Pioneer Battalion.