Group portrait of members of 5th Pioneer Battalion, 5th Division AIF taken outside the chateau at ...

Accession Number H00454
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Amiens Harbonnieres Area, Hamel Area, Cerisy
Date made November 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 members of 5th Pioneer Battalion, 5th Division AIF taken outside the chateau at Cerisy-Buleux. This image was taken at the end of the war when troops were being moved back to England before transportation back to Australia. Identified, left to right, back row: L G Morgan or Private (Pte) Oatley; Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Signaller (Sig) L Le Strange; 270 Pte Llewellyn Jones; unidentified; 1342 L Cpl James (Darkie) Pratt MM; 3026 Pte Sig Harry Alfred Boddington; either 2563A Pte Sig Leslie James Butcher or 2796 Pte Sig Thomas Alfred Butcher; unidentified; unidentified and unidentified.
Fourth row: 2150 L Cpl Sig Arthur Frank Gayler; either 2722 Pte Sig Andrew James Morrow or 2723 Pte Sig Frederick Morrow; 2332A Pte Sig Thomas Leslie Boyce; 2076 Pte Felix Halloran; 2630A Pte Francis Thomas Kozlowski; Driver Dunn (probably 3793 Walter Francis Dunn); 2462 Pte Edward Ward; 3794 Pte William Lucas; 2940 Sig Walter Gibbon Shankland; Sergeant (Sgt) J Cochrane; 2218A Pte Sig Edward Sowton Nankivell; and 2454 Pte Sig William Henry Wright.
Third row: 2559 Pte Sig Walter Adams; 1020 Pte Esmon Stephen Jarvis; 2669 Pte Nels Hoken Sjostrom; Pte Sig Richardson; 2322 Pte Harold Bertram Channon; 3309 Sgt Harold Spencer Brown; 1022 Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) David Barty; Pay Sgt A King; either Sgt Cole or Sig W Reville; 3673 Pte Sig Henry Andrew Beauchamp; 2456 Pte Edward James Wyld; 1071A Cpl Sig John Wilfred Graham; and Pte Thompson.
Second row: 919 Pt Edwin James Lambert; unidentified; 3419 Pte Walter Phillips; either Pte W Robinson or 623 Pte Sidney Charles Robins; and 711 Pte Clarence Holmes; unidentified; 2458 Pte Sig Eric Barnard White; 3547 L Cpl Sig Harold Leslie Fisk; and 281 Pte Ernest Quailey.
Front row: 152 Pte Joseph Bates; 2147 Pte Sig William Cliffert Le Poidevin (holding a cat); 2400 Pte William Murphy; 4112 Pte George Frederick Glover; 1859A Pte Olimpio Gatti; Pte Liddle; and either 3520B Pte Francis William Young or 2457 Pte George Young.