Comments on: Relics of the 16th Battalion at the Bloody Angle, Gallipoli, 1919 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/10/14/relics-of-the-16th-battalion-at-the-bloody-angle-gallipoli-1919/ Blog Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:01:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Di Rutherford http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/10/14/relics-of-the-16th-battalion-at-the-bloody-angle-gallipoli-1919/comment-page-1/#comment-4088 Di Rutherford Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:25:42 +0000 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/?p=3513#comment-4088 Hi Bruce, we do not have a photograph of your uncle that I could find, but we do have a number of photos of the 16th Battalion. You can search the photographs that are online through our collections database at http://www.awm.gov.au/search/collections/?mode=advanced. if you use the advance search function you can search for "16 Battalion" or "16th Battalion" as exact phrases and limit the search to the First World War (otherwise you will also end up with images from the 2/16th Battalion in WWII). cheers Dianne Hi Bruce, we do not have a photograph of your uncle that I could find, but we do have a number of photos of the 16th Battalion. You can search the photographs that are online through our collections database at http://www.awm.gov.au/search/collections/?mode=advanced. if you use the advance search function you can search for “16 Battalion” or “16th Battalion” as exact phrases and limit the search to the First World War (otherwise you will also end up with images from the 2/16th Battalion in WWII). cheers Dianne

]]> By: Bruce Swanborough http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/10/14/relics-of-the-16th-battalion-at-the-bloody-angle-gallipoli-1919/comment-page-1/#comment-4043 Bruce Swanborough Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:11:11 +0000 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/?p=3513#comment-4043 hi, My great uncle Swen Sandstrom was a member of the 16th battalion at Gallipoli. Are there any photographs of the battalion? Regards Bruce. hi,
My great uncle Swen Sandstrom was a member of the 16th battalion at Gallipoli. Are there any photographs of the battalion?
Regards Bruce.

]]> By: Australian Bookshop http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/10/14/relics-of-the-16th-battalion-at-the-bloody-angle-gallipoli-1919/comment-page-1/#comment-4019 Australian Bookshop Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:34:53 +0000 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/?p=3513#comment-4019 I've just had a chance to thumb through the book 'Gallipoli Revisited'. Some of the photo's are amazing. It's hard to imagine what was going through the minds of these young men of the 16th during this campaign. I’ve just had a chance to thumb through the book ‘Gallipoli Revisited’. Some of the photo’s are amazing. It’s hard to imagine what was going through the minds of these young men of the 16th during this campaign.

]]> By: Di Rutherford http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/10/14/relics-of-the-16th-battalion-at-the-bloody-angle-gallipoli-1919/comment-page-1/#comment-3691 Di Rutherford Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:16:42 +0000 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/?p=3513#comment-3691 Hi Bob, I have not found anything that links the naming of Bloody Angle at Gallipoli to the one in America, but you never know, it may have had an influence. Certainly you can easily see how the position got that name. It was pretty steep from all accounts, which would account for the 'Angle' part. The bodies of men killed in the area during the first several days of the Gallipoli Campaign would have created quite an awful sight. That would account for the 'Bloody' (much in the same way 'Deadman' s Ridge' was named - due to the large number of bodies of men killed there in the attack of 2/3 May.) If anyone has any information on the naming of Bloody Angle I would be interested to hear it. Di Hi Bob, I have not found anything that links the naming of Bloody Angle at Gallipoli to the one in America, but you never know, it may have had an influence.

Certainly you can easily see how the position got that name. It was pretty steep from all accounts, which would account for the ‘Angle’ part. The bodies of men killed in the area during the first several days of the Gallipoli Campaign would have created quite an awful sight. That would account for the ‘Bloody’ (much in the same way ‘Deadman’ s Ridge’ was named – due to the large number of bodies of men killed there in the attack of 2/3 May.)

If anyone has any information on the naming of Bloody Angle I would be interested to hear it.

Di

]]> By: Bob Meade http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/10/14/relics-of-the-16th-battalion-at-the-bloody-angle-gallipoli-1919/comment-page-1/#comment-3644 Bob Meade Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:28:40 +0000 http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/?p=3513#comment-3644 I wonder how "Bloody Angle" got that name. There was also a "Bloody Angle" at Spotsylvania in 1864 during the American Civil War which regained a place in American consciousness during the 50th anniversary commemorations of 1913. I wonder how “Bloody Angle” got that name.

There was also a “Bloody Angle” at Spotsylvania in 1864 during the American Civil War which regained a place in American consciousness during the 50th anniversary commemorations of 1913.

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