Description
Outdoor group portrait of members of the 10th Light Trench Mortar Battery at Neuve Eglise, France. Identified in the back row from left to right: 1180 Private (Pte) Clifford Guy (later Lance Corporal); 3125 Pte John Cameron; 1644 Pte Ernest John Deans; 2056 Pte Ernest Cressington; 2319 Pte George Stanley Hennessey; 2 Pte Arthur Absolom; 2688 Pte Frederick William Knight; 914 Pte George Hubert Quinn; 6043 Pte Samuel Joseph Jackson; 1009 Pte Thomas Patrick Waters (later Corporal); 1953 Pte Albert Victor Norris; and 2167 Pte Martin William Waters.
Second row from left to right: 2367 Pte James McLachlan; 1814 Pte James Ritchie (later killed in action in France on 10 August 1918); 103 Pte Francis Andrew Egan; 2337 Pte George Hill; Pte A Eaton; 2148 Pte Albert William Shippard; 70 Pte Jack Clues; 1306 Pte Albert Victor Strachan; 1040 Pte William Daniel Connolly; 1271 Pte George Romar; 2096 Pte William James Carl Harder (later accidentally killed in Belgium on 24 February 1918); 1864 Pte William McDonald; and 653 Pte William Robertson.
Front row from left to right: 1160 Corporal (Cpl) Robert Edwin Cargill (later awarded Meritorious Service Medal (MSM)); 27 Cpl Edgar Henry Beggen (later accidentally killed in Belgium on 24 February 1918); 1642 Cpl Leslie Victor Dunn (later awarded Military Medal (MM)); 797 Cpl William Harrison; 154 Sergeant (Sgt) William Reuben Lorensini DCM (later died of wounds in France on 28 September 1918); Lt James Joseph Munday, Acting Officer Commanding; Lt Thomas Kevin Cahill (later killed in action in France on 30 August 1918); 553 Sgt John James Oliver (later awarded DCM and MM); 1643 Cpl Robert Henry Dunn; 2406 Cpl Ernest George Edmund Cooper; 1837 Cpl Arthur Raymond Lewis; and Pte Robert William Price.
Details
Photographer
Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Date Made
13 January 1918
Credit Line
Australian Official Photograph
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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Conflicts