Group portrait of officers of the 7th Battalion. Left to right, back row: Second Lieutenant (2nd ...

Accession Number E01814
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Heuvelland, Locre
Date made 20 February 1918
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 7th Battalion. Left to right, back row: Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) John Hamilton Hamblett (killed in action 9 August 1918); Lieutenant (Lt) Roy Anderson; Lt Maurice Victor Crowe; Lt Kenneth George Banks (died of disease 3 March 1919); Lt (later Captain) Hewlett James Wright; Lt (later Captain) Thomas Patrick O'Connor; Lt George Benson Russell; 2nd Lt Keith Mervyn Purbrick; Lt (later Captain) Harold Henry Young; Lt Douglas George Phillips MC; Lt Herbert Nixon. Middle row; Lt Vincent Robert Dickinson; 2nd Lt Rupert Benjamin Purbrick (killed in action 9 August 1918); Lt M G Gauthier (French interpreter); Lt Ernest George Robb; 2nd Lt Walter Edward Lane; Lt George Leopold Trotman (died of wounds 17 April 1918); Lt Albert Edmund Beech; Lt Francis John Smedley (died of wounds 20 August 1918); Lt Frederick Bryce Gaulton; Lt Robin William Swallow; Lt Thomas John Ross (killed in action 9 August 1918); Lt Thomas Arthur Jardine; Lt Kenneth Richard Jarvie. Front row: Captain (Capt) Douglas Lewis Barlow MC (Medical Officer); Lt Eric Woodruff Hill; Lt Oliver John Harris MC (Adjutant); Lieutenant Colonel Ernest Edward Herrod CMG DSO (Commanding Officer); Major (Maj) Claude Hibbert Swift; Capt James Frederick Bowtell-Harris MC; Maj Hector Ernest Bastin MC.