In the trenches, Quinn's Post

Place Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Accession Number ART90798
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 17.6 x 24.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description pen and black ink on card
Maker Silas, Ellis
Place made United Kingdom: England, Greater London, London
Date made 1916
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

A dead soldier in the trenches at Gallipoli, and one who has just been hit. A third soldier is looking through a periscope and a fourth seen in the background. Rifles on the sandbags and a trunk containing supplies right foreground; bullets are hailing all around.