Portrait of 5020 Sergeant John Lachlan Macmillan, 10th Light Horse, rifle with fixed bayonet, a ...

Accession Number A05402
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Throssell, Hugo Vivian Hope
Place made Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Marmara, Chanak, Gallipoli Peninsula
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait of 5020 Sergeant John Lachlan Macmillan, 10th Light Horse, rifle with fixed bayonet, a gramophone beside him. This image was taken by Hugo Throssell VC and supplied to the Daily Mail then republished in the Sydney Sun newspaper, on 28 November 1915 with the following caption: "A remarkable photograph taken by Lieutenant Throssell VC for the Daily Mail, just before a bayonet charge. The soldier on duty is Sergeant Macmillan, a splendid type of Australian, 6ft. 6in. high, and 17 stone in weight. The trench gramophone is playing a stirring march while the men wait the order to charge. The Turks are only 30 yards away."

By the time this photograph had been published, Macmillan had received a severe gun shot wound to his thigh (on 27 August 1915) and he returned to Australia in early 1916.