Battalion & Group Photos
Below is a selection of surviving 2/4th Machine Gun battalion photos taken prior to departure for war.
Additional group photos that have been made available to association have been published here, some for the first time.


A Company No 5 Platoon
Back Row, —-, DF Sterritt, FG Kerwin, JB Gilmour, EA Watt, J Scales, WT Haywood, RP Elvish, AS Parke, LM Murray, RK Gregory, RE Hughes, TM McMahon, RC Reed.
Centre, LR Rayner, N Armstrong, EJ Ovens, JS Elliott, NHE Thompson, LC Helmrich, B Fitzgerald, RW Chipperfireld, JB Mellor, EJ Holst, JK Ramsbottom, (Lane), J Alderton, DJ Davies, J Borrow.
Front CJ Vidler, Sands, N Hayes, AJ McGhee, J Gilmour, JJ Dore, JH Sherman, Lt AB Walton, RH Cornish, HE Shaw, RC Tuffin, J McDonald, ? Williams, RK Gregory, TA Minchin.



B Company No 8 Platoon
B Company No 9 Platoon
C Company
C Company Headquarters

Back L-R, DT Manning, —-, WR Morris, AA Adams, LS Hummerston, KT Hayes, ? Armstrong, RR McCaskill, CG Henderson, AH Dyson, R Hadfield, LJ Marriott, N Jones, F Carroll.
Centre, WW Reeves, KG Moir, LD Byrne, FT McGlinn, KJ Howell, E Ricketts, DA Matheson, RJ Carlisle, LN Holtzman, —-, GN Burslem, —-, SK Wenn.
Front , CG Ferrie, GL Burdon, E Godfrey, HC Fuhrmann, HJS Fidge, RC Fullarton, Lt VT Warhurst, FW Webb, J Aberle, C McLennan, CK McDonald, FJ Baxter, W McKay.
Seated, J Clare, CW Anderson, CW White.
C Company No 11 Platoon
C Company No 12 Platoon


Centre, HJ Worsdell, RJ Ham, PL Westlake, HAT Chivers, EJ Hope, AR Attenborough, JE Smith, AD Winter, WE Lynn, EH Mann, A Worth, AJ Jones, TH Lewis.
Front, P Moltoni, B Evans, A Cryer, J McDonald, WGR Stuart, DR Horn, D Colevas, Lt TH Tompkins, AW Rickard, C Wells, H Turnbull, L Poyner, IW Jones, G Hancock.

Back L-R —-, R Williams, EJ Leadbitter, EC Kemp, FM Barrymore, —-, DA Annear, FL Taylor, KS Mitchell, R Semple, F Armstrong, R Craig, JE Fraser, AL Pitts.
Centre, EG Moir, GR Rouse, —-, PA Giese, —-, B Harrison, , —-, LA Blair, FDJ Clarke, —-, R Whitford, AJ Bell, G Bousefield, WJ Beer.
Front, C Holmes, CJ Spackman, GT Shelton, —-, M Fuller, J McSkene, Lt JT Meiklejohn, J Solly, J Thorpe, —-, AL Tapper, EG Taylor, E Shackleton, M Armstrong, PA Gardiner, JE Tregenza.
HQ Coy No1 (Signals) Platoon
No 2 Platoon Ack-Ack

Reinforcements General not allocated at that stage.
Back row L-R L/cpl McGhie, Pte Smith, Trigwell, Smith, Lewis, Godden, Cake, Lucas, Foster, L/cpl Hatch
Centre Sgt Graham, Pte Salter, Atkinson, L/cpl Boyle, Pte Knight, Shepherd, Doherty, Sloan, Pierce, Dawson, Perkins, Anderson, Watts, Cpl Scott.
Front Pte Brown, L/cpl Negri, Pte Pascall, Mc Glinn, Holt, Lieut Gibson, (A Coy Comm), Lieut Branson (Display Comm), Pte Hardey, O’Brien, Carwardine, Barrett, Laurence, L’Cpl Beck (Drummer)

Photo courtesy of the Gaze family Borden (WX9337, A.D.Moir)
First N.C.O. School Northam 1941

No3 Platoon Northam march.


‘A’ Battalion march Northam – Perth 1941



Possibly members of B Coy No 9 Pln.

Front —–, —–, Joe Lynch

2/4th survivors of Ohama Japan, Schuts Whitlaw Poulton Oag Worth Walker

Members of B Company en-training
ANZAC Day parade
ANZAC Day parade

No3 Platoon drivers
No2 Platoon Ack Ack

Train to Darwin
Meal Time

Front L-R F.Halbert, G.Burdon, K.McDonald, W.McKay, R.Hadfiled

Photo courtesy Margaret Thompson (WX9157 A.L.Tapper)
Photo courtesy Margaret Thompson (WX9157 A.L.Tapper)