Studio portrait of Lieutenant Phillip Frederick Edward Schuler wearing the uniform of the ...

Studio portrait of Lieutenant Phillip Frederick Edward Schuler wearing the uniform of the Australian Intelligence Corps. Schuler served in the militia in the 5th Battalion, he transferred to the Australian Intelligence Corps as a second lieutenant on 20 February 1911 and was assigned to the Australian Service Corps on 11 March 1912. In 1914 Schuler accompanied the 1st Australian Division of the AIF overseas as a war correspondent for the Melbourne Age. Initially refused permission to land at Gallipoli he eventually arrived on the peninsula in July 1915. After the failure of the Dardanelles campaign he returned to Australia and wrote two books on the Australian involvement: The Battlefields of Anzac, and, Australia in Arms. On 7 April 1916 he enlisted as a driver (10926) in the 3rd Divisional Train, Australian Army Service Corps (AASC). He sailed from Melbourne on 3 June 1916 on board HMAT Persic (A34). After training in England and promotion to Corporal, he sailed for France on 21 November 1916 allocated to the 869th Company, 3rd Divisional Train, Australian Army Service Corps (AASC). He was commissioned on 24 May 1917 and transferred to the 868th Company to be the Supply Officer. On the 23 June 1917 he was wounded in action, evacuated to the 2nd Casualty Clearing Company (2CCS), he died of his wounds that day. Lieutenant Schuler is buried in the Trois Arbres Cemetery, Steenwerk, Belgium.