Members of C Company, 45th Battalion, in the advanced trenches at Garter Point, in the Ypres ...

Accession Number E00841
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Maker Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres, Menin Road, Garter Point
Date made 29 September 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Members of C Company, 45th Battalion, in the advanced trenches at Garter Point, in the Ypres Sector. Identified, right to left, working back up the trench: 2138 Private (Pte) William Ernest Black; Pte E E Street; Pte H F Thurston; Pte J Clancy; Sergeant T. Lovett; Pte G Sears [3225 George Edward John Seers]; unidentified behind Sears; 800 Pte Hughie Edward Young MM (beside Seers); Pte G Walker (behind Young); Pte Perkins [2222 Pte Herbert George Perkins MM] (beside Walker), with a stretcher bearer's armband; 3747 Pte William James Williamson (behind Walker with cigarette in mouth); Pte F W Smith (behind Williamson); unidentified beside Smith; unidentified, behind and to the other unidentified's right); Pte R Thomas (behind Smith); 3403 Pte Horace Gordon Lane (behind Thomas); Pte J Phillips (to Thomas's right); all other men unidentified.