C02130 Accession Number: C02130

Description

Group portrait of four officers of D Company, 1st Battalion, who took part in a football match against a 2nd Battalion team at Mena camp, outside Cairo. They are seated in the 1st Battalion lines. Note the pyramid in the background. Identified left to right (back row): Major Blair Inskip Swannell, who was killed in action on 25 April 1915; Lieutenant Alfred John Shout. Later rising to the rank of Captain and winning the Military Cross, Shout died at sea on 11 August 1915 of wounds sustained at Lone Pine on 9 August; he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. Front row: Lieutenant William Sydney Duchesne, who was killed in action on 25 April 1915; Captain Harold Jacobs.

Details

Accession Number
C02130
Maker
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
March 1915
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Lent by Major H Jacobs
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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