This photograph of the Company HQ, C Company, 16 DLI was taken at Er Rama, Palestine in April 1944 and is reproduced here with the kind permission of the Trustees of the DLI Museum and the Durham County Record Office, where it is catalogued as Ref No. D/DLI 2/16/5. The Record Office caption is as follows:
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‘Group photograph of Company Headquarters staff, 'C' Company, 16th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry 'M.E.F.' [Middle East Force]:
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Back row: Private F. Wright, Corporal T. Sirrell, Privates F. Ward, A. Carter, W.A. Miller, J. Milburn
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Middle row: Sergeant L. Price, Company Sergeant-Major A. Mattin, Major P. Casey, Company Quartermaster-Sergeant E. Rolls, Private D. Craddock
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Front row: Privates H. Fisher, F. Robinson, P. Rattigan, C.E. Johnson
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Survivors from Sedjenane action: Ward, Miller, Mattin, Robinson, Johnson. Motorised Transport section, some at Sedjenane: Sirrell, Carter, Milburn, Fisher
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Reinforcements after Sedjenane: Wright, Price, Casey, Rolls, Craddock, Rattigan.’
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