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Various Officers,WW1.../5
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(Sergeant) Eugene Schuyler A. Earle 589. Unit: B Company, 33rd Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 02 December 1916 Armentieres Western Front. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (HU 118267) Company Sergeant Major Gilbert Beresford Dyer. Unit: 51st Battalion, attached 14th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: Quinn's Post,28 April 1915 Gallipoli. Eldest son of Benjamin Hatch Dyer and Frances Elizabeth Dyer, of 317, Nicholson St.,East Brunswick, Melbourne*, Australia. Native of Carlton.Aged 26 years. (*IWM Info.317, Nicholson St., Brunswick East, Victoria,) http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (Q 70209) Sergeant John Whittle VC DCM (12th Battalion AIF) shaking hands with Corporal George Howell VC MM (1st Battalion AIF), presumably after their decoration ceremony. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (HU 122504) Private Leslie Haliburton Fynmore 628. Unit: "C" Company, 21st Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 23 August 1916, Mouquet Farm, Somme, Western Front.Son of Frank and Henrietta Fynmore, of 85, Darling St., Moonee Ponds, Victoria. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (HU 122503) Sergeant Harry Lovell Fynmore 26395. Unit: 7th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 13 June 1918, Western Front. Son of Frank and Henrietta Fynmore, of 85, Darling Street, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (HU 118849) Private Noel Gordon Tampling 5300. Unit: 12th Australian Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps. Death: 20 September 1918 Died of wounds, Western Front. Son of John Willam and Alice Marhta Tampling, of 10 Edgerton Street, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia CWGC has age at death given as 20..... http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (HU 122280) Captain Cecil Maitland Foss MC. Unit: 28th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 11 August 1916, Pozieres, Somme, Western Front. Son of Cecil Langham Foss and Isabella Mary Foss, of "Hillside," 33, Mount St., Perth, Western Australia. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...at=photographs © IWM (HU 113331) Lance Corporal Oliver Albert Mortimer Barker 187. Unit: 10th Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force. Death: 25 July 1916, Somme, Son of Thomas William and Elizabeth May Gooding Barker, of 5, Grenfell St., Kent Town, Adelaide, South Australia. http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib...6590/large.jpg (OK now, what is the story here...an Australian wearing a wedge cap...)
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Wedge cap: I'm guessing that as he has not yet been issued his lapels and Australia titles, he is still in the early stages of training and these caps were handed out to the new recruits, being later replaced with slouch hats.
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Thanks for the info.
Jo
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