25th Battalion Expeditionary Force Football team; Private Hodges last solder in right, 3rd row

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Studio portrait of the 25th Battalion Expeditionary Force football team, on the occasion of the game "Soldiers versus Woolloongabba" in aid of the Belgian Fund. Soldiers won 6-3. Left to right: back row: Sergeant-Major George Dewhurst (later killed in action on 5 November 1916); 637 Sergeant (Sgt) Charles George Freestone; Private (Pte) E Benson. Third row: Sgt Bertram Edward White; Quartermaster-Sergeant James Finley Mitchell; Lieutenant-Colonel David Day Dawson; 671 Pte Albert Lindsay (later killed in action 29 July 1916); Pte B Hodges (probably 2157 William Albert Hodges who died of wounds 20 February 1917). Second row: Mr Hart; 302 Corporal Gilbert Bedsor; Pte Ernest William James Slatcher (later killed in action 29 July 1916); Captain (Capt) A Stevenson; Capt Gustavus Mark Connor; Pte Barnes (possibly 24 Pte John Sydney Barnes); Lieutenant (Lt) Boyer; Mr H Sunderland (secretary Queensland Rugby). First row: 753 Pte Edwin Steele; Pte E Cronin (probably Edward Denis Cronin, later 52nd Battalion; Pte D Aiken (Vice-captain) (probably 557 George Douglas Aiken); Lieutenant Archibald Vivian Auchterlonie (Captain) (later killed in action on 20 October 1915); Sgt W Anderson (probably 560 Private William Marriot Anderson); 1564 Pte Walter Punchard; 947 Pte John Naughton; seated in front: Maurice J Barry. Note: original held in Australian War Memorial Archive Store.

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