Informal group portrait of officers of the 6th Machine Gun Company, probably outside their ...

Accession Number H15315
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
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

Informal group portrait of officers of the 6th Machine Gun Company, probably outside their barracks. Identified from left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Hector Aldridge Robinson MM; Lt John Edmund ‘Jack’ Hopper; Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Frank Leopold Wright MC (later Lt).
Second row: known to be in this row but positions unknown: Jack Rice, Captain (Capt) John Hughes ‘Jack’ Drummond MC; Lt Douglas Frank Rae MC (later Capt), and 2nd Lt Hubert De Burg Newcomen (later Lt).
Front row: Lt John Donald ‘Jack’ Campbell (later killed in action in Belgium on 9 October 1917) and Lt Allan Pither Hitchcock DCM.