Description
Outdoor group portrait of members of the Old Battalion (2nd Battalion) now with the regiment. Identified in the back row from left to right: 834 Private (Pte) Robert Charles Cutts; 2403 Pte Alfred Arthur Ferguson; Pte Wallace; Pte Campbell; 651 Corporal (Cpl) Roger Richard James Moloney; 466 Pte John Baxter Smith; Pte Gallagher; 1029 Sergeant (Sgt) Charles Morgan (killed in action in France on 23 August 1918); Pte Harvey; 817 Pte Harold Ashton; 471 Pte Patrick Throsby; 788 Pte William Logan Sibbald; 231 Pte George Tidyman; 1153 Pte Thomas Henry McColl, DCM, MM; and 381 Pte Leonard Arthur Clinch.
Second row from left to right: 2668 Cpl Charles Perry (killed in action in France on 7 November 1917); 19 Pte William Frederick Bridger; Pte Thompson; 2947 Pte Richard Henry Steele (died of wounds in France on 20 October 1917; Pte Brown; 1793 Pte John Richard Macdonald; Pte White; 327 Sgt Sydney Robert Oppy; 294 Sgt Robert Haggath, MM; 168 Sgt George Goss; unidentified; Pte Marsh; unidentified; 414 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Arnold Hazlewood; and unidentified.
Third row from left to right: Pte Clarke; unidentified; unidentified; 474 Sgt Eric Richard Turner; 903 Pte George Gavin Shiphard; 378 Sgt William Crawford; 519 Sgt John Helmer; Jones; Walsh; 332 Company Sergeant Major (CSM) Hercules Ivan Peisley (died of wounds in France on 23 August 1918); Kelly; Foster; 915 Walter Herbert Vogt; 757 Sgt James Loyal Lambert (killed in action in France on 6 November 1917); 876 Sgt James MacDougall, MM; 663 Driver (Dvr) James Finch Nobbs; and Doyle.
Fourth row from left to right: Roberts; 925 Staff Sergeant James Patrick Driscoll; 1003 Warrant Officer (WO) John Wesley Hetherington; Lieutenant (Lt) Hugh Douglas Newton; Lt Edwin Charles Hind Haxby; Lt Stanley Tindal, MC; Lt Thomas Elliot; Major (Maj) Herbert Alexander Youden, DSO; Captain (Capt) William Augustus Trott, MC; Capt Leslie William Rosen, MC; 376 Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) Robert Coskery; Capt George Nicholas Mann, MC; Lt Cecil Allan Purdon; Little; and Ryan.
Front row from left to right: Lt Darcy Vincent Meek; either 257 Pte William Waters Avis or 364 L Cpl Victor Leslie Avis; and 592 Sgt Frederick Bede Barker.
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Donor Mr Strand
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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