| Accession Number | C03190 |
|---|---|
| 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
|
The original graves of Australian soldiers in a cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The plot in ...
Description
The original graves of Australian soldiers in a cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The plot in the foreground contains five graves, the first three of which are too faint to be discernable. The fourth is of 13 Private (Pte) Claude Walter Abbott, 1st Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps, killed in action on 29 May 1915, aged 24 years. Pte Abbott served for four years in the Essex Imperial Yeomanry in England before immigrating to Australia at the age of 23. The fifth grave belongs to 916 Bombardier (Bdr) Percy Samuel Hooppell, 2nd Australian Field Artillery Brigade, killed in action on 30 May 1915, aged 19 years. Bdr Hooppell's uncle, 3839 Pte Archibald Ralph Hooppell, 23rd Battalion, was killed at Pozieres on 11 August 1916, aged 39 years.