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Group portrait of officers of the 13th Battalion in Egypt. Identified in the back row from left to right:
Lieutenant (Lt) Donald Percival Wells (later Captain, POW and served in WWII); Lt Randle; Lt Robert Alexander McKillop (later Captain and awarded Military Cross); Second Lieutenant Carl Sceale Cooling; Lt Theodore Wells (later Major and awarded Military Cross); Lt John Darcy Durham Henry (later Captain); Lt Stanley James McPhillimy; and Lt Robert Humphrey Browning (later Major and awarded Military Cross).
Second row from left to right: Lt Cyril Bernard Meyer (later POW); Lt John Kereth Henderson; Lt Murray; Colonel (Chaplain) Frederick William Wray; Captain (Capt) Robert James Henderson (Later awarded Military Cross and Bar and died of wounds on 13 May 1918 in France); Capt William Henry Murray (later VC, CMG, DSO and Bar, Croix de Guerre); Lt Arthur Lanagan; Lt Gilbert Waynflete Adams; Lt John Govett Geary (Transport) (later Captain and killed in action on 8 August 1918 in France); Lt Wolner; and Unidentified.
Third row from left to right: Lt Davis (Quartermaster); Capt Harold Leslie Henley (later killed in action on 15 August 1916 at Pozieres, France); Capt Hugh Douglas Pulling (later awarded Military Cross); Major (Maj) Hubert Cedric Ford (later awarded Distinguished Service Order); Colonel Leslie Edward Tilney (Officer Commanding) (later awarded Distinguished Service Order); Capt Douglas Gray Marks (Adjutant) (later Captain and awarded Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross and Serbian Order of the White Eagle); Capt Francis Maxwell Barton (later killed in action on 11 August 1916 at Pozieres France); Capt Arthur Gerard Fox; and Capt William James Ellery Phillips (Medical Officer) (later Major and awarded Military Cross).
Front row from left to right: Lt Neville Wallach (later Captain and awarded Military Cross); Lt Ralph Hamish Kell (later Captain); Lt William Unwin Clasper (died of wounds on 21 April 1917 at Bullecourt, France).
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Colour: Black & white
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