Group photograph, from a newspaper, of the officers of the 5th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, taken on the eve of the battalion’s departure for France, April 1915 Back row: Second Lieutenants G.L. Rutherford, F.D. Brown, and G.J.H. Ashwin, Lieutenant J.K.M. Hessler, Lieutenant J.A.N. Hessler, Second-Lieutenant J.C.D. Brown, Lieutenant W.N.J. Moscrop, Second-Lieutenant F.E.S. Townsend, Second-Lieutenant M.J. Morrison Second row: Second-Lieutenant O.J. Williams, Second-Lieutenant C. Wood, Lieutenant W.H. Robson, Captain P. Wood, Lieutenant T.W. Bush, Reverend J.A.G. Birch, Captain W. Marley, Captain R.T.B. Glasspool, Lieutenant E.H. Ropner, Captain J. Blumer Front row: Captains H.R. Wilson, A.L. Raimes, R.W. Pearson, and V.F. Gloag, Lieutenant-Colonel G.O. Spence, Major B.G.D. Biggs, Major H. Ensor, Captain H.G. Faber, Captain H.F. Wilkin, Royal Army Medical Corps On ground: Lieutenant E.A. Meek, Second-Lieutenant C.N. Sadler, Second-Lieutenant E.W. Faber