Men of the 1st Battalion burying the dead in the right hand end of the Lone Pine trenches, which ...

Accession Number C02014
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

Men of the 1st Battalion burying the dead in the right hand end of the Lone Pine trenches, which the 1st Brigade captured on 6 August 1915. In this trench Lieutenant Frederick Harold Tubb, 2130 Corporal William Dunstan and 384 Corporal Alexander Stewart Burton, 7th Battalion, later won the VC while repulsing a Turkish counterattack.

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