Philip Wilson
Sep 26 2009, 07:19 PM
Click to view attachment This photograph appears in 'Australia in Arms' by Phillip F.E. Schuler, published in 1916.
Can anybody please put names to the faces?
Sorry its not the best of pictures the original being somewhat faded.
Philip
michaeldr
Sep 27 2009, 06:21 AM
Philip,
Have a look at the AWM site and their collection of images which might help
eg; ART09425 shows Bridges with a group of his staff in the Egyptian desert in March 1915
At least seven of the staff are named
(tried to provide a link but without success)
regards
Michael
Philip Wilson
Sep 27 2009, 07:34 AM
Michael
Thank you - for the details re the group portrait of officers of the Australian Imperial Force, 1st Australian Division in the desert in 1916, some standing and some seated at tables. Standing l-r: Colonel N R Howse, VC, Colonel J J Hobbs, Colonel W G Patterson, Colonel J McCay, Colonel E G Sinclair-MacLagan, DSO, seated l-r: Colonel C B B White, Major General W T Bridges, CMG, kneeling: Colonel H N MacLaurin, group of four unidentified men at right...
Best wishes
Philip
frev
Sep 28 2009, 06:02 AM
Hi Phillip
The names below (incase the link even further below doesn't work!)
ID Number: A00712A
Maker: Unknown
Place made: North Africa: Egypt, North Egypt, Mena
Date made: December 1914
Physical description: Black & white
Summary: Group portrait of staff Officers at Mena Camp. Left to right: back row: Historian Captain (Capt) Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean; Lieutenant (Lt) W. Smith; Capt J T Fitzgerald; Major T Matson; Capt W J Foster; Capt T Griffiths; Lt E C P Plant; Capt S M E R de L de Bucy; Lt R G Casey, (later Govenor General of Australia); Lt R A Ramsay; Lt F P Murphy. Front row: Lt Colonel J G Austin; Major C H Foott; Major J Gellibrand; Colonel (Col) W G Patterson; Lt Col N R Howse VC; Major General W T Bridges; Lt Col C B White; Major D J Glasfurd; Major T A Blamey; Lt Col G A Marshall.
Credit line: Lent by C E W Bean.
http://cas.awm.gov.au/PROD/cst.acct_master...r&bos=Win32Cheers, Frev
Philip Wilson
Sep 28 2009, 07:01 AM
Frev
Thanks - very much appreciated.
Philip