P03010.001 Accession Number: P03010.001

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A commemorative Honour Board with a group portrait and individual studio portraits of men who worked at Hoffnung & Co Ltd, Brisbane, Queensland and who served in the First World War. Identified in individual portraits from left to right, top row,: 3059 Corporal (Cpl) Frederick George Walter Andrews; 750 Sergeant (Sgt) Arthur Oswald Stewart (killed in action 29 July 1916 at Pozieres, France); 1156 Sgt William McBurnie (died of wounds on 22 October 1917 at Ypres, Belgium); and 3622 Sgt William John Bull. Individual portraits, bottom row: 80 Private (Pte) Andrew Jack Labatt; 33721 Cpl Geoffrey Standish Unsworth; 3852 Staff Sergeant (SSgt) Arthur Lowry; and A Quest (a munitions worker).
Identified in group portrait, from left to right, back row: 371 Cpl Arthur Mirls; 3885 Lance Corporal (L Cpl) Mathias Byers Oxlade; 5052 L Cpl Leonard Bolton; 3914 Pte Josiah Solomon; Trooper (Tpr) J. Flannagan; 6830 Pte Clifford Reginald Marwick; Driver C Geogehan (probably 25455 Driver Charles Geoghegan); 1613 Pte George Albert Reuter; Pte T Stewart; 2870 Pte James Vercoe Solomon, MM; and 3767 Pte Harold McGavin.
Second row: Pte J Walker; Cpl J Mackay; 324 L Cpl Charles William Seales; 1696 Cpl Vivian Claude Sneyd MM and Bar; Driver (Dvr) G Price; Pte L Gwyther; 509 Gunner (Gnr) Anthony James Sewell; Cpl S Hartridge; and 1035 Cpl John Ellis Thompson, MM (wearing a Silver Wound Medal on his jacket lapel).
Front row (sitting): Sgt H Carter; 1665 Sgt Andrew Roderick McDowal, MM (wearing two wound stripes); Lieutenant (Lt) Richard Bentley Salisbury, MC (wearing two wound stripes), E R Isaacs (Manager), Lt John McDermott; 4166 Sgt Ernest Patrick Cleary; and Sgt J Jones.
Other men who served, but are absent from the photograph are 34626 Gnr Thomas John Jewell; 3768 Pte Thomas James McHugh; 5128 Pte John Hedges; Pte J Doyle; 5341 Pte Samuel Geary; Pte H White; 6679 Pte Norman Alexander Stiller; 4214 Pte Allen John Keiler (died of wounds on 25 July 1916); 2682 Pte William Solomon (killed in action 23 August 1918); Captain (Capt) James Edward Herbert MC, (died of wounds 17 April 1918); 2978 Pte Robert John Patterson (died of wounds 12 June 1917).

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Accession Number
P03010.001
Photographer
Fred W Thiel
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Colour - Toned black & white print
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c 1919
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor S Hoffnung
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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