Keywords: AWM PB1402.jpg Australia Victoria Melbourne Broadmeadows Group portrait of Siege Artillery Brigade officers SAB Back row left to right standing http //deepthought hass adfa edu au 8080/showPerson pid 249013 Lieutenant Lt Henry Douglas Eyre Ralfe a professional soldier of Sydney NSW Royal Australian Garrison Artillery Pilots Certificate No 1419 12 May 1915 qualified at Werribee Vic later killed in action 6 May 1918 http //deepthought hass adfa edu au 8080/showPerson pid 38717 Lt Harry Charles Bundock professional soldier of Randwick NSW http //deepthought hass adfa edu au 8080/showPerson pid 302410 Lt William Tomkinson professional soldier of Sydney NSW Lt Edward Kenneth Smart professional soldier of Armadale Vic Lt Charles Morris professional soldier of North Carlton Vic Lt Basil Moorhouse Morris professional soldier of Wahroonga NSW Lt Percy Walter Dobson professional soldier of South Yarra Vic; Lt Wilfred William Whittle professional soldier of Ballarat Vic Front row sitting Captain Capt Roy William Cohiston-Walsh Australian Army Medical Corps of Sydney NSW http //deepthought hass adfa edu au 8080/showPerson pid 16105 Capt Arthur William Bates professional soldier of Richmond Vic http //deepthought hass adfa edu au 8080/showPerson pid 231052 Major Maj Frederick William Osborne Officer Commanding OC No 1 Battalion Lieutenant Colonel Lt Col Walter Adams Coxen of South Yarra Vic Commanding SAB Maj John Herbert Hurst OC No 2 Battalion of Freemantle WA Capt George St John Fancourt McDonald Adjutant of Malvern Vic who was awarded DSO 29 June 1917 and who died of wounds on 22 March 1918 Capt Moreton David Williams of Caulfield Vic All of the group embarked on 17 July 1915 on HMAT Orsova A67 from Melbourne On 21 May 1915 Coxen was ordered to raise the brigade of siege artillery for service in Europe The brigade was to consist of two batteries with eight siege guns to be supplied by Britain and 415 officers and other ranks about half of whom would be permanent force artillery gunners The brigade which became known as the 36th Heavy Artillery Group departed Melbourne on 17 July 1915 and landed in England on 25 August 1915 After a delay due to a short supply of heavy artillery pieces the 54th Siege Battery was equipped with 8 inch howitzers and the 55th Siege Battery with 9 2 inch howitzers The batteries moved to France on 26 February and 2 March 1916 respectively The 36th Heavy Artillery Group began operations in support of the British XVII Corps in the Arras sector before moving south to join the British Fourth Army for the Battle of the Somme The Group then joined I Anzac Corps Artillery at Pozières and took part in the Battle of Pozières in support of the Australian Infantry PB1402 1914 Barnes Josiah Copyright expired - public domain PD-Australia World War I forces of Australia in Australia Group portraits in 2 rows Group portraits with 15 persons Black and white photographs Broadmeadows Victoria |