Accession Number | A05402 |
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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 This item is in the Public Domain |
Portrait of 5020 Sergeant John Lachlan Macmillan, 10th Light Horse, rifle with fixed bayonet, a ...
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.