E01621 Accession Number: E01621

Description

Group portrait of the NCOs of the 30th Battalion, 5th Division, in the snow. Identified from left to right, front row: position (1) 1615 Corporal (Cpl) Kenneth Alexander Stevenson; (2) 1195 Cpl William Thomas Abel; (3) 4394 Cpl Charles Henry Hoskin Pratt (later killed in action in Belgium on 2 February 1918); (4) 4295 Cpl Roland Southam; (5) 1598 Cpl Norman McKenzie; (6) 107 Sergeant (Sgt) Arthur David Burns MM; (7) 2492 Sgt Linton Harold Moore (later awarded MM); (8) 4030 Cpl Frederick Claude Florance; (9) 618 Lance Sergeant (L Sgt) Ernest Charles Brown; (10) 2570 Sgt Augustus Lewis Anderson; (11) 2283 Company Sergeant Major (CSM) Leonard Birmingham Bickerton (killed in action in France on 29 September 1918); (12) 4084 Cpl Daniel Bernard McVeity (later L Sgt); (13) 3018 Sgt Henry James Shepherd; (14) 839 Sgt Gordon Begg; (15) 5196 Sgt Reginald McKinnon; and (16) 1573 Cpl Alfred Kirkby.
Second row: position (17) 1263 Sgt Eric Douglas Robinson; (18) 398 Sgt Geoffrey Cowan (later DCM); (19) Sgt Carran; (20) 1328 Cpl William Duncan (21) 614 Sgt Alfred Haughton Brown; (22) 2926 Percy Ferguson (23) 1007 Cpl Edgar Wilkinson; (24) 1085 Sgt George Edward Hard (later Lieutenant (Lt)); (25) 7 Sgt George William Wrapson; (26) 1110 Cpl Joseph Iles Mills; (27) 2792 Cpl Albert Ernest Turley (later MM and L Sgt); (28) 4407 Cpl James Hill Watson (died of wounds in France on 19 July 1918); (29) 1557 Cpl Thomas Cyril Grogan (later MM); (30) 473 CSM Joseph Bernard McGowan DCM; (31) 4800 Cpl William Lloyd; (32) 1233 CSM Eric George McKinnon (later Lt); (33) 1294 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Harold David Ford; (34) 88 Company Quartermaster Sergeant (CQMS) Edward Forbes Walker; (35) 66 Cpl Albert Goldman; (36) 1066 Sgt William Henry Elms; (37) 470 Sgt Warren Frederick Munday (later MM) [almost totally obscured]; (38) 568 Cpl William Henry Webb (killed in action in France on 30 September 1918); (39) 2069 L Sgt William Charles Jackson; (40) 1594 Sgt Edward McBride; (41) 265 Sgt John Edmund Penrose; (42) 393 Sgt Reginald Hardy Cooper (killed in action in France on 29 September 1918); (43) 3765 Sgt John Edmund Buttsworth; (44) 265 Cpl John Ernest Skene; (45) 691 L Cpl Albert Hampton James (later Cpl); (46) 1222 Sgt Florence McGillycuddy MM; (47) 3340 Sgt Lyle Ewen Watterston; (48) 1544 L Sgt Samuel Douglas Dickson (later Lt) [partly obscured]; (49) 155 Sgt Robert James Estell (later MM); and (50) 2353 Cpl Harold James Jarvis.
Back row: position (51) 568 Cpl William Henry Webb (killed in action in France on 3 September 1918); (52) 1295 Sgt Albert William Chivers; (53) 473 CSM Joseph Bernard McGowan (later awarded DCM and killed in action in Belgium on 24 March 1918); (54) 1323 CQMS James Andrew Hogg MM; (55) 1805 Sgt Frank McCristal; (56) 4748 Cpl Robert John Ball; (57) 904 Cpl Peter John Holder (later died of wounds in France on 28 August 1916); (58) 1246 Cpl George Ogle; (59) 877 Sgt Thomas Eccles, MM; (60) 4139 Cpl Alexander Centennial Stubbs; (61) 366A Cpl George Bromley (later L Sgt); (62) 2267 Cpl Cecil Edwin Alcorn (later Lt); (63) 2072 Cpl Raymond Eric Johnson (later Sgt); (64) 827 Cpl William James Burns; (65) 3754 L Sgt William Christy Abbott (later MM and Lt); (66) 979 Cpl Arthur Leslie Smith; (67) 539 Sgt Walter George Smith MM; (68) 965 Sgt Claud Lionel Lindsay Rideley; (69) 1279 L Sgt Hugh Dodington Gooding; and (70) 833 Sgt John Hamilton Brown.

Details

People

• Sergeant Peter John Holder
• Corporal Charles Henry Hoskin Pratt
• Company Sergeant Major Leonard Birmingham Bickerton
• Corporal James Hill Watson
• Sergeant William Henry Elms
• Sergeant Frank McCristal

Rolls

• Holder, Peter John
• Bickerton, Leonard Birmingham
• Elms, William Henry

Conflicts

• First World War, 1914-1918

Places

• Desvres

Units

• 30th Australian Infantry Battalion

Tags

• Group portraits