Group portrait of members of the Australian Rugby Football Team competing in the inter services ...

Accession Number D00373
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made March 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
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 members of the Australian Rugby Football Team competing in the inter services Rugby competition.
Back row, left to right: 117237 Lance Corporal John Thompson (played one test for Australia in 1914); Corporal Thomas Stenning; William Thornton Watson MC & Bar (eight tests for Australian 1912-1920); Lieutenant Ernest Austin "Bill" Cody (three tests for Australia 1913); J. Murray; William Roger Bradley; Arthur Michael Lyons; Captain Bruce McNeil Beith (four tests for Australia 1914-1920).
Middle row: John Herbert Bond MSM; D. Hickey; P. Buchanan; J. C. Watkins; Godfrey E "Babe" See MM (played for country NSW prior to 1916 and for NSW in 1919).
Front row: 7291 Dudley Colin Suttor (played three tests for Australia in 1913); Thomas William Flanagan.
In 1950 the team met for a reunion in Sydney.