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Group portrait of Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Muir Purser, DSO and Headquarters staff of 29th Australian Infantry Battalion. Identified, left to right:
Back row: 2590 Corporal (Cpl) Herman John Whiting; 20 Sergeant (Sgt) Gordon James Butler; 63 Sgt Alfred Hounslow Gray; Sgt Nicholson.
Third row: 367 Sgt John Whitlock; 633 Sgt Frederick Horace Simpson; 5 Cpl Douglas McDowall; 7 Sgt Robert Edward Charles, MSM; 214 Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) Thomas Clark (standing slightly forward); 621 Sgt Harold Stanley Ruff (standing slightly back); 2 Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant (RQMS) William Eustace James, MSM.
Second row: (formerly 59) Lt Harry Percival Templeton Chapman; Lt Ernest Stanley Weaver; Lt Spencer William Coleman, killed in action 9 August 1918 ; (formerly 108) Lt Arthur Henry Stephens; Lt Henry Campbell Brady; Lt Norman Hugo Munro.
Front row: unidentified French interpreter (off camera); Captain (Capt) Austin Francis Eva (Chaplain); (formerly 749) Lt John Samuel Harris, MC; Capt Hugh Cuthbert Cate; Lt Col Muir Purser, DSO; Capt Victor Paul Hildabrand Stantke, MC; Lt Davies; Capt Henry Fitzgerald Maudsley, MC; (formerly 111) Lt Robert Walker.
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Colour: Black & white
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Copyright expired - public domain
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