Description
Informal group portrait of headquarters staff of the Desert Mounted Corps on the steps of the house of Lazar Slutzkin, where they were based. Identified from left to right, back row: Lieutenant (Lt) Frederick William Cox, Aide de Camp (ADC) to General Officer Commanding (GOC), 10th Australian Light Horse (ALH) Regiment; Reverend William Maitland Woods, Senior Chaplain; Lt Robert Rowan, Scottish Horse Attache; Major (Maj) Alan Joseph Love, General Staff Officer (GSO) Second In Charge (2IC), 10th ALH Regiment; Acting Capt Arthur Miles Furber, West Indies Regiment Camp Commandant; Lt Duncan Gillies Thomson, 6th ALH Regiment Attache; Lt William Gordon Lyons, New Zealand Mounted Rifles. Second row: Maj Raymond Asher Milton Allen MC, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General (DAAG) Royal Field Artillery; Maj Thomas Ellis Robins, Assistant Provost Marshal (APM), 1st City of London Yeomanry; Capt W E Bruce, Deputy Assistant Director of Ordnance Service (DADOS); Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Reginald Edmund Maghlin Russell DSO, Commander Royal Engineers (CRE); Capt Mare, 7th Battalion Middlesex Regiment, General Routine Order; Lt Col Arthur Annerly Corder CMG, AOD ADOS; Capt John George Hunter AAMC, Military Observer (MO).
Third row: Capt H Astley ADC to GOC, RFA, Royal Regiment of Artillery (RA); Lt Col Paravicine ADR; Lt A J Whittall, Intelligence Officer; Capt G T I Leonard, Corps Chemical adviser, RFA; Lt G Nicol R E DADAPS; Lt C L Gray, Adjutant R E.
Second row: Lt William John Attfield, Field Cashier; Capt A C B Neate RFA, GSO (2); Maj N H C Russell DSO, Leinster Regiment GSO (2); Lt Col M McBidder DSO RE ADAS; Lt Col Llewellyn Partridge DSO, Pembroke Yeomanry CMGO; Col Rupert Major Downes CMG, Deputy Director of Medical Services (DDMS), AAMC; Maj Frank Graham Newton, Assistant Adjutant General, 5th ALH Regt; Maj Frederick Phillimore Howell-Price DSO, Australian Army Service Corps, DAST.
Front row: Brigadier General Richard Granville Hylton Howard-Vyse CMG DSO, Royal Horse Guards; Lt Gen Sir Henry George (Harry) Chauvel KCMG CB; Brig Gen Edward Fynmore Trew DSO, DAA and QMG Royal Marines; Brig Gen Algernon D'Aguilar King OB DSO, GOC, RA; Lt Col Walter Percy Farr, AA and QMG, Australian Permanent Staff.
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Object Type
Black & white - Glass original whole plate negative
Date Made
19 November 1917
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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