Bob has written to me twice since then, and has filled in some details about my father that he had to hand, and that I hadn't heard before. He's also sent me a letter with information about the men in the photo. He's concentrated on getting the names right; the additional and almost illegible information my father put on the back of the photo is in the earlier blog post.
Here is what Bob has told me:
Here are the names from the left as I see it:
Front row: Vladimir Bagirov, Yuri Averbakh, Brian Harkin, Karlis Lidums, ?McAuliffe.
2nd row: Cecil Purdy (arms folded), Garry Koshnitsky, A. Cuntala.
3rd row: (3 at left and 2 at right) Lucius Endzelins, Karlis Ozols, Ortvin Sarapu, P. Purkalitis and Phil Viner.
4th row: (2 only) W[olfgang]. Leonhardt, John Hanks.
5th row: John Purdy, Frank Crowl, Emmanuel Basta, A[rthur]. Teters, Vas Lapin, L. Cohen.
6th row: R. Stalley, A.L. Miller, (and over on the right) W.J. Goss.
Bob writes that he is awaiting confirmation of these names, and he adds: I may have some wrong. There are 24 people and 23 played in the tourney. There are 3 officials - Harkin, Lidums, and McAuliffe, so 2 players are not in the photo. One [of those] is Dr P. Kalinovsky, and the other is Peter Wren.
My father had written about the 'pin-up boy' and the 'conveyor of Crowl from Griffith to Adelaide and back'. Bob writes: The pin up boy would be John Purdy. [He was Cecil Purdy's son and became a Family Court Judge.] The player who gave your dad a lift is Phil Viner.
