Group photograph of officers of the 12th Field Artillery, AIF, taken just before the battle of ...

Accession Number H15734
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Date made June 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Group photograph of officers of the 12th Field Artillery, AIF, taken just before the battle of Messines. Identified in the back row from the left to right: Lieutenant (Lt) Harry King Barraclough (later awarded Military Cross (MC)); Lt Allan Ogilvie Smith (later Captain); Lt Brian Irvine Keys (later awarded Croix de Guerre); Unknown; Unknown; Unknown Interpreter attached from the Foreign Legion; Lt George Hill Adams (later Lieutenant Colonel and awarded MC); and Lt Frank Peter Mountjoy (later awarded MC).
Second row from left to right: Lt Leonard Cariston Seton (later awarded MC and Bar); Unknown; Lt Eric Vane Doddemeade; Unknown; Lt William Thomas Needs (later awarded MC); Lt Frank Levy (later promoted to Major); Lt Gilbert Macarthur Goldfinch; Captain (Capt) Ivan Coronel Hains, Medical Officer and three unknown officers.
Third row from left to right: Capt Hugh Richard Hallard (later Major and awarded Distinguished Service Order); Unknown; Major (Maj) George Ellis, 45th Battery (Bty); Maj Robert Harold Thomson, 47th Bty (later awarded MC); Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Lee Rex Rabett, Commanding Officer (later awarded Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George); Maj Eric Walter Richards, 112th Howitzer Bty; Maj R.C. McKay 46th Bty; Unknown; and Capt Henry John Frederick Coe, Adjutant.
At the front from left to right: Lt Lawrence Hurley Callinan (died of wounds in France on 9 September 1918); and Capt Weston, a British Horsemaster who was attached to the unit.