The Australian delegates to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919

Prime Minister William ‘Billy’ Hughes and Deputy Prime Minister Sir Joseph Cook (front row third and fourth from left) and their staff, Paris, France, 1919. The Australian Solicitor General, Robert Garran, is second from left. It was at Garran’s instruction that the British Empire’s first shot of the war was fired on 5 August 1914 at the German ship Pfalz as it tried to leave Port Philip Bay, Victoria.