Officers chatting with players during a spell in the football match between south australian and tasmanian members of the 2/3 machine gun battalion. Identified are tx2483 sergeant (sgt) joseph royden (roy) lette, c company (11th from left, wearing white shorts and a jersey with a white v); and sx500503 (sx6962) lieutenant colonel arthur seaforth blackburn, vc, commanding officer 2/3 machine gun battalion (14th from left, wearing his slouch hat and first world war german luger pistol in holster). Sgt lette had been a notable australian rules footballer with the city club, launceston,tas. He died of wounds on 4 march 1942 in java, aged 25. Date: October 1941.
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