100268 Accession Number: 100268

Description

Outdoor group portrait of Other Ranks of HQ AIF Middle East at Heliopolis racecourse. Records show the soldiers numbered from 1 to 128 but there is no indication as to where the numbers commence. Identified personnel are: 1. VX18804 Martin Frederick Shannon (later Staff Sergeant (S Sgt)); 2. SX2409 Jack Aubrey Day (later Warrant Officer Class 1 (WO1)); 3. VX16244 Donald William Eldridge (later Sergeant (Sgt)); 4. NX14945 Roderick James Searle (later Warrant Officer Class 2 (WO2)); 5. NX13942 Gunner (Gnr) David Llewellyn Narbet; 6. NX1617 Reginald George Dark (later Lance Sergeant (L Sgt)); 7. SX5157 Mervyn Arthur Hay (later Sgt); 8. QX9068 Private (Pte) William James Dedman; 9. NX53794 Pte Leonard Wanless; 10. WX6922 Pte Herbert Bloomfield; 11. NX15108 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) John Cecil Buckley, (later killed in action in New Guinea on 20 Oct 1943); 12. VX40830 Pte Herbert Arthur Halls; 13. VX27614 Garth Fraser Reese-Hackford (later Captain (Capt)); 14. SX5759 Pte Herbert Edward Seebohm; 15. WX5448 Pte Ken Morrison Maley; 16. VX37270 Pte Reginald Nicholas Penglase; 17. VX8962 Pte Frederick Arthur Gilmore; 18. TX1716 Francis Ridgeway Musson (later Capt); 19. VX7579 (32386) Cpl Raymond James McNamara; 20. WX6811 (59276) Charles Francis Platell (later S Sgt); 21. VX21440 Pte Thomas Patrick Joseph Malcolm; 22. VX47539 Herbert Monro (later WO1); 23. VX34242 Donald Austin (later Sgt); 24. VX40745 Cpl George Wallace Knox; 25. WX3060 Pte William Tennent; 26. VX11791 Leo Aloysius Cahill (later L Sgt); 27. QX9263 Cpl John Hurst William Willsher; 28. VX41710 Geoffrey Simon Patience (later Sgt); 29. WX2223 Pte William Edward Brooks; 30. NX6362 L Cpl Herbert Dransfield; 31. VX3917 Craftsman Ernest Arthur Lalor; 32. VX44428 Pte Geoffrey Frederick Atkins; 33. NX29728 Albert James Eli Windsor (later Lieutenant (Lt)); 34. VX3878 Pte Leslie William Griffiths; 35. WX2929 Pte Victor John Crack; 36. NX68561 Cpl William Swebleses McAuliffe; 37. NX3090 James Crawford Hunter (later WO 2); 38. VX15606 Lloyd George Matters (later S Sgt); 39. VX22102 Colin James Keith McGregor (later S Sgt); 40. WX6109 (59192) Vivian Charles Davy (later S Sgt); 41 NX32278 Douglas Lawrence Cohen (later Lt); 42. WX1093 Pte Martin Francis Houlahan; 43. VX28455 Pte Henry Ousley; 44. NX47213 Pte Gordon William James Kew; 45. NX36792 Pte Neil John Reberger; 46. NX15487 (N196120) Cpl Ernest Sykes Thornton; 47. VX17109 L Cpl Gene Rae; 48. unknown; 49. NX29143 Pte Roy Mervyn Child; 50. WX1880 Pte Ronald Keith Anderson; 51. VX10209 Richard James Green (later Sgt); 52. VX34412 Cpl Ronald James Ives; 53. SX8168 Pte Robert George Henderson; 54. NX28244 Cpl John Douglas Davies; 55. VX6241 Pte Joseph Henry Dorain; 56. NX7923 Cpl Thomas McAuley; 57. NX58039 Richard Walter Harding Browne (later S Sgt); 58. NX15063 Gunner (Gnr) Geoffrey Edward Davis; 59. VX15731 Francis Keith Scott (later Lt); 60. WX6936 Pte George Frederick Budd; 61. SX5656 John Kirkpatrick Cornish (later Lt); 62. VX15360 Cpl Ormond Darling; 63. NX15526 Pte Keith Tasman Scoles; 64. NX29755 Cpl David Keith Gattenhoff; 65. QX17340 Pte John William Chambers; 66. VX9545 Cpl Ernest John Wilson; 67. NX22748 Albert Keith Smith (later Lt); 68. NX7871 Ernest Edward Clempson (later Sgt); 69. VX3445 Albert Brash (later Sgt); 70. VX24776 Cpl Frederick Neil Pugsley (later Lt); 71. VX10175 Gnr Francis Gerald Hodgins; 72. SX274 Pte Albert John Wilson; 73. NX11338 Leonard Arthur Mears (later Sgt); 74. WX7294 H R H Price; 75. NX33751 Pte Arol Jack Piercy; 76. NX4903 J. H. Spence;
77. NX14291 (21713) William Arthur Crook (later WO2); 78. VX47142 Herbert Henry Simpson (later WO1); 79. VX5541 Cpl Allan Leslie Lawson; 80. VX6872 Pte Leo Francis Callaghan; 81. NX18136 Pte James Alexander Innes; 82. VX10614 Pte Stanley John Bratt; 83. NX6501 Pte Noel Oscar Halgren; 84. VX4847 Sgt Frederick Roy McGregor; 85. WX4151 Driver William Burbridge;
86. NX19034 Cpl Douglas Robertson; 87. unknown; 88. VX27760 Cpl William James Wallace; 89. WX2608 Gnr James Robert Lofthouse; 90. VX8401 Cpl John Joseph Gill; 91. SX5013 Norman Dudley Buttfield (later WO2); 92. NX52593 Sapper Charles William John Fraser; 93. NX13452 Pte Henry Leslie Rydquist; 94. SX4743 Murray Alan Buttfield (later Lt); 95. QX179 Eric Stanley Hebden (later L Sgt); 96. WX4343 Gnr Bernard John Anzac Mill; 97. NX14095 Arthur Thomas Gregory (later Sgt); 98. NX1957 Cyril Douglas Mitchell (later Sgt); 99. VX25670 Andrew Gray Blyth Staley (later Capt); 100. VX58880 Pte Norman Charles Halls; 101. NX9938 Pte Leslie Roland Thompson; 102. unknown; 103. VX20228 Henry Austin McKay (later S Sgt); 104. WX5819 Leopold Cleggett (later Lt);
105. QX4929 (19159) Eric Stewart Farnsworth (later Sgt); 106. WX3977 Signalman Keith Mervyn Bateman; 107. unknown; 108. WX579 Dvr Robert William Edwards; 109. VX14702 Pte James Campbell Bradley; 110. unknown; 111. VX15339 Pte Reginald James Smith; 112. VX6864 James Robert Allen Russell (later L Cpl); 113. VX12389 Pte Frank McLean; 114. NX5477 Pte Malcolm Robert Victor McKenzie; 115. VX2333 William Ballantyne Allan (later L Sgt); 116. VX38609 (V82439) Cpl Samuel Dodds; 117. VX8869 Dvr Clive Robert Bannister; 118. NX6357 Pte Leslie Athol Clegg; 119. unknown; 120. unknown; 121. NX22750 Lionel Byron George Johnstone (later Sgt); 122. VX44826 WO2 Gerald Bloink; 123. unknown; 124. NX6071 Cpl James Norman Dent; 125. NX11267 Pte Roderick MacDonald; 126. unknown; 127. VX15015 Pte David Claude Fraser; 128. NX45486 Thomas Hayes (later WO1).