Three members of the 1st Anzac Corps Headquarters (HQ) in their dugout on the Gallipoli ...

Accession Number C03430
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 June 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Three members of the 1st Anzac Corps Headquarters (HQ) in their dugout on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Identified, left to right: Staff Sergeant (SSgt) G Reeder, SSgt Patrick Eugene Coleman, and Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant John Francis Donnelly. SSgt Coleman was later promoted to Deputy Assistant Adjutant General of the Anzac Corps HQ in France, and was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for 'good and meritorious service' on 23 July 1919.