Part of an Australian cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The graves are covered with small ...

Part of an Australian cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The graves are covered with small stones. Legible in the foreground is the inscription marking the grave of Lieutenant Trevor Owen-Smythe, 10th Battalion, killed in action on 16 May 1915. On the right is that of Captain Edward Frederick Bage, 3rd Field Company Engineers, killed in action on 7 May 1915. Trained as a civil engineer and a surveyor, Edward Bage took part in Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) as astronomer, assistant magnetician and recorder of tides. When Mawson and his companions failed to return to winter quarters at the expected time, Bage volunteered for a relief party of six that remained in the Antarctic for a second winter. He led a party on a dangerous 1000 km journey hauling sleds over the ice and was awarded the King's Polar Medal in 1915. He enlisted in August 1914 as second in command of the 3rd Field Company Engineers. He was killed while marking out a trench line near Lone Pine when he and his companions came under fire from five Turkish machine guns.