P02279.003
Image copyright:
Copyright expired - public domain
This image is in the Public Domain
- ID number
- P02279.003
- Photographer
- Unknown
- Object type
- Black & white
- Place made
- Ottoman Empire: Beersheba
- Date made
- 31 October 1917
- Physical description
- Black & white
- Collection
- Photograph
- Description
- The dead bodies of Australian soldiers killed in the charge on Beersheba lie in a row on the ground. The dead men were members of the 12th and perhaps the 4th Australian Light Horse Regiments. The body marked with an X is that of 924 Trooper (Tpr) Albert (Tibby) Cotter of the 12th Light Horse Regiment (12ALH). Tpr Cotter, who came from Glebe in Sydney, had been a noted cricketer before the war. His elder brother John had been killed in action in France less than two weeks before.
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