E00555 Accession Number: E00555

Description

Members of the 10th Machine Gun Company, by an old German pillbox, at Uhlan Trench, Messines Ridge. Left to right: Major Harold Ordish DSO; Lieutenant Frank Hales Potter (slightly behind Ordish); Sergeant (Sgt) J H White; Private (Pte) C A Bayliss; Pte P C Prist; 12 Sgt Alfred Tennyson Burgess (partially obscured); Captain Augustine William Wardell MC; unidentified (partially obscured); unidentified; 68 Pte Reginal Beresford Hunt. Pte T Ferguson, is standing in the trench in the centre foreground.

Details

Accession Number
E00555
Photographer
Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
July 1917
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Australian Official Photograph
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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