C01683 Accession Number: C01683

Description

Group portrait of seven officers of the 2nd Australian Field Ambulance, a pyramid in the background. Identified left to right (back row): Captain Roy William Chambers; possibly Captain Balcombe Quick; Captain Christopher Norman Matheson, smoking a pipe; Major William Weston Hearne, who, as Acting Director of Medical Services, 5th Division, was killed by a shell fragment on 17 October 1917. Front row: Captain Andrew Victor Honman, who died on the Western Front on 20 May 1917 after being gassed; Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Hobart Sturdee, seated on a deck chair; Captain Charles Morley, Quartermaster.

Details

Accession Number
C01683
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
January-March 1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Lent by Lieutenant Colonel B Quick DSO
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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