A cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula, showing at centre the original grave of Captain (Capt) ...

Accession Number C03402
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
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

A cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula, showing at centre the original grave of Captain (Capt) Edward Frederick Robert Bage, 3rd Field Company Australian Engineers. Before the war, Capt Bage was an astronomer, assistant magnetician and recorder of tides with Sir Douglas Mawson's 1911 Antarctic expedition; a role for which he was awarded the King's Polar Medal in 1915. Whilst marking out a new trench on the forward slope of Silt Spur, southern Anzac sector, he was fatally wounded by machine gun fire and died on 7 May 1915, aged 27.

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