H15315 Accession Number: H15315

Description

Informal group portrait of officers of the 6th Machine Gun Company, probably outside their barracks. Identified from left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Hector Aldridge Robinson MM; Lt John Edmund ‘Jack’ Hopper; Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Frank Leopold Wright MC (later Lt).
Second row: known to be in this row but positions unknown: Jack Rice, Captain (Capt) John Hughes ‘Jack’ Drummond MC; Lt Douglas Frank Rae MC (later Capt), and 2nd Lt Hubert De Burg Newcomen (later Lt).
Front row: Lt John Donald ‘Jack’ Campbell (later killed in action in Belgium on 9 October 1917) and Lt Allan Pither Hitchcock DCM.

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Accession Number
H15315
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c 1917
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
DONOR GENERAL H.E. 'POMPEY' ELLIOTT
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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