Group portrait of Military Staff of Education Services AIF, taken in the backyard of 32 Grosvenor ...

Place Europe: United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London
Accession Number A03641
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made September 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 Military Staff of Education Services AIF, taken in the backyard of 32 Grosvenor Place, London. To the above note made in London is added on 9 May 1941, from Mr Bean, the following explanatory note; Identified members of the Administrative Committee of the Australian Universities are: E R Holme (Sydney), Chairman of the Committee, fifth from left in front row; H Allen (Melbourne) second from right in front row; ?Clark (Adelaide), first on right hand end of front row next to Allen. All were Honorary Captains of the AIF, Allen and Clarke had been on service during the war. Holme was to have gone with the Sydney University Company of reinforcements in 1918, which was stopped at embarkation by the armistice. He was then sent on for the Committee's work as part of the AIF Education scheme. Lieutenant L H R Gordon MC (Adelaide), who had been on service and was joined as chief assistant to the Committee and did some of its best work, is first left in second row. The head of the Education Service, after Bishop Long, was Brigadier General W Ramsay McNicol, since knighted and now Governor of the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. He is seated sixth from left in front row.