Group portrait of the 8th Reinforcements, 55th Battalion. Identified in the group are: 3114 ...

Group portrait of the 8th Reinforcements, 55th Battalion. Identified in the group are: 3114 Private (Pte) Bertie Edward Blewitt, third row from back, fifth from left who returned to Australia on 23 June 1919 : 3204 Private Albert George Pegram (sixth from left, third row from back) wounded at Polygon Wood and died of wounds on 28 September 1917 (Pegram and Blewitt were both from Bredbo NSW); 3105 Private George William Ham Bush (fourth from left, fifth row from back) of Jerrawa, NSW. Bush was killed in action (KIA) on 30 September 1918 during fighting at the Hindenburg Line, France. 3132 Private Thomas Davis, an Aboriginal serviceman originally from Brungle, NSW, and residing in Queanbeyan at the date of his enlistment on 19 October 1916, is fifth from right, fourth row from back. 3107 Private Rowland Elijah (Dick) Bush (second from right, fourth row from front, partly obscured), was from Glenrock, Oolong, NSW at the date of his enlistment on 25 September 1916. The soldier in the back row fifth from left is probably 3112 Private John Brenell, an Aboriginal miner from Cessnock, NSW. Brenell was possibly residing in Queanbeyan at the date of his enlistment on 19 October 1916 when he was aged thirty six years. Davis and Brenell, enlisted on the same day. Brenell died of sickness in France on 14 February 1918 at the age of thirty seven. 3225 Pte Oliver Henry Travers from Oallen is fifth row from back, tenth from the left. His brother Egbert Travers (third from the left, third row from back) enlisted under an unknown alias. Note that the man in the front row, fifth from right, is holding a cat.