September 19 1917 An Australian Photographer takes this photo, AWM E00739, of “ Members of the 22nd Battalion, AIF, taking a meal in the trenches on Westhoek Ridge on the night before the opening Australian attack [during the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge] on 20 September 1917. Identified, left to right: Mundie; Gilbert; Peach; Robinson; and two unidentified soldiers. Their trench has been reinforced with interwoven twigs. ” The Commonwealth War Graves Commission lists 875 Australians died #OTD September 20 1917.

With only their last names there is not much to go on. CWGC can tell us that after Sep 1917 the amount of soldiers with the following surnames died: 1 with Mundie, 22 with Gilbert, 6 with Peach but none of the soldiers with these three surnames was with the 22nd Bn, AIF. Now there were 76 Australian dead with the surname Robinson and one of these Pte George W. Robinson, 6433, died sometime between Sep 21-22 1917 and was with the 22nd. This is might be the Robinson in the picture, 4th from the left.