Group portrait of officers of the 20th Battalion at Liverpool Camp, shortly before they embarked ...

Accession Number J06327
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black and White - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Liverpool
Date made c June 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Group portrait of officers of the 20th Battalion at Liverpool Camp, shortly before they embarked for Egypt on 25 June 1915 aboard the HMAT Berrima.
Identified left to right: 598 Quartermaster Sergeant Stanley Roy Kent, (later awarded the MC as Captain (Capt) Kent); Capt Eric Lloyd Hutchinson, (later awarded a DSO); Brigadier General John Lamrock, VD (later warded a CB); Major Richard Lewis Hay Blake Jenkins, served in the Boer War, (later killed in action at Lone Pine on 11 Dec 1915; he is remembered with honour on the Lone Pine Memorial in the Anzac cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey).