General Sir William Riddell Birdwood conversing with unidentified Australian divisional ...

Accession Number EZ0134
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker British Official Photographer
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Pozieres Area, Pozieres
Date made 8 July 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

General Sir William Riddell Birdwood conversing with unidentified Australian divisional commanders after a ceremony in which he unveiled a memorial to the 1st Australian Division. Identified left to right: General Birdwood; Major General Joseph John Talbot Hobbs, 5th Division; unidentified; unidentified (back to camera); Major General Sir H B Walker, 1st Division (body obscured); unidentified. The other divisional commanders present are Major General N M Smyth, 2nd Division; Major General John Monash, 3rd Division; Major General Ewan George Sinclair-MacLagan, 4th Division.

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