H00177 Accession Number: H00177

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Outdoor group portrait of officers of the 12th Australian Machine Gun Company behind four of their Vickers Mk 1 machine guns. Identified, left to right, back row: 1506 Second Lieutenant (2nd Lt) Bernard O’Reilly (later Lieutenant); 283 2nd Lt Claude Napier King (later Lieutenant, killed in action 8 August 1918); 276 2nd Lt Edward Maurice Cullimore (later Lieutenant, MC); 3110 2nd Lt William Gregson (later Lieutenant). Front row: 375 Lt Peter Grieveson; 592 Captain (Capt) Harry Wolseley (or Wolsely) Crouch MC; 933 Capt David Stacey Amherst Martin (later MC); 571 Lt Allan Fergus Taylor (later MC, Captain); 1234 Lt Errol Phineas Congreve Upton. All these officers rose through the ranks.

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Accession Number
H00177
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
November 1917
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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