E01601 Accession Number: E01601

Description

Group portrait of the officers of the 7th Company Engineers, at Leewerk Farm, near Neuve Eglise. Identified from left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Frederick Fisher Christian MC and Bar; Lt Harold Conrad Renshaw MC (later 6th Field Company); Lt James Taylor Gray (later captain (Capt) with 5th Field Company); Lt Clarence William Newsome Sexton (later 6th Field Company); Lt Frederick James Deacon (later awarded MC with 5th Field Company).
Second row: Lt Thomas Andrew Lawrie (later awarded MC); Lt Alfred Leslie Polson MC (later Capt); Lt Eowyn Hugh Davies (later awarded the MC and promoted to Capt with 6th Field Company); Lt Arthur Ronald Parkinson (severely wounded 31 August 1918 with 5th Field Company); Lt Lionel Prior Elsum (later 6th Field Company); Lt Lancelot Waring Gill, (severely wounded 21 May 1918); Lt Arthur Kernaghan MM (later died of wounds in France on 1 September 1918); Lt Clifford Ernest Plant MM (later 5th Field Company); Lt Frederick Stanley Croker (later 5th Field Company and awarded MC).
Front row: Captain (Capt) Ebenezer Alexander Sanbrook, Regimental Medical Officer; Capt John Gurner Burnell MC (later awarded the French Croix de Guerre with 5th Field Company); Lt Harold Ernest Harris MC, Adjutant (later awarded the French Croix de Guerre); Major (Maj) Norman Charles Harris MC, Officer Commanding, (later awarded the DSO with 6th Field Company); Lieutenant Colonel James Montagu Christian Corlette DSO, Commander, Royal Engineers, 2nd Division (later awarded CMG and the French Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Fifth Class); Maj Robert Stewart Reid, Officer Commanding, 7th Field Company ( later awarded the DSO); Maj Eric Norman Webb MC, Officer Commanding, 7th Field Company (later awarded the DSO); Capt Louis Noedl MC (later awarded the DSO); Capt James Coghlan MC (later major and Officer Commanding 14th Field Company).