A00712
Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
- ID number
- A00712
- Photographer
- Unknown
- Object type
- Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
- Place made
- France
- Date made
- 1916
- Credit line
- Lent by C E W Bean.( see P07984.005).
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- A group portrait of war correspondents and press censors outside the British Press Headquarters probably at Rollencourt Chateau. Left to right, back row: Unidentified press officer; Captain (Capt) Cadge, press censor; Mr Beach Thomas, Daily Mail correspondent; unidentified press officer. Centre row: Capt Roberts, press censor; Mr Malcolm Ross, New Zealand official correspondent; Mr Frederick Palmer, American war correspondent; Capt Faunthorpe, press censor (afterwards chief press censor for some time and noted by Bean as 'a very good censor'). Front row; Mr Perry Robinson, Times and Daily News correspondent; Mr Phillip Gibbs, Daily Telegraph and Daily Chronicle correspondent; Lieutenant Colonel Hutton Wilson, chief press censor; Mr H Russell, Reuters correspondent; Mr C E W Bean, Australian official correspondent.
