Image 16035, courtesy Coburg Historical Society
The only person to be identified so far is Bill Libbis (6th from left in middle row).
1989 Private William Thomas Libbis, 6th
Infantry Battalion and his brother 9025 Private Leslie Fookes Libbis, 6th
Field Ambulance were old boys of Coburg State School and are featured in the School's Soldiers Book. Bill Libbis died at Lone Pine on 7 August 1915.
Looking at these photographs of the brothers, neither looks like the young man identified as Bill Libbis in the football photograph and it is possible that he was misidentified.
Other old boys of the school who served in the war and lived in Mayfield Street at the time were Clive and Frank Callaghan, Dudley Crump and Vernon Hallam.
These men are all part of Coburg Historical Society's ANZAC project, so if you recognise any of the people in the photo, I would be very interested in hearing from you. I also wondered
if anyone recognises the house in the background - a long shot, I know.
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