Damaged tunic : Lieutenant Colonel C Rosenthal, 3 Field Artillery Brigade, AIF

Privately made khaki cotton twill weave service dress tunic with notched collar, pleated breast pockets with triple pointed flaps, expanding hip pockets with rectangular flaps, shoulder straps, pointed cuffs, a self fabric band at the waist with single brass belt hook set into the left side, and a centre back vent on the skirt. The four buttons closing the front as well as those closing the pockets and shoulder straps are made from pressed leather. Oxidised Rising Sun badges are attached to each side of the collar; each shoulder strap carries oxidised 'Australia ' titles and rank insignia for a lieutenant colonel. The upper back of tunic has been extensively damaged by shrapnel.

While his artillery batteries were emplaced on Bolton's Hill overlooking Shell Green at Anzac, Colonel Charles ‘Rosie’ Rosenthal, later a major general, occupied a small dug-out near the gun pits. It was just a hole in the ground some eight feet square by 8 feet deep with a timber roof covered by a layer of sandbags; Rosenthal considered it rather a good "possie" as from it he could observe the Turkish positions from Gaba Tepe to Lone Pine. But it did not afford much protection against shell fire as he and one of his battery commanders, Major Burgess, a New Zealander serving with the Australians, found to their cost on the afternoon of 5 May 1915. Around 5 pm on that day, the Turks began to shell the battery positions. The two officers sat close against the side of the wall making the most of the little protection the dug-out offered, but a Turkish shell penetrated the roof, burst, and momentarily stunned them. After the smoke had cleared, it was noticed that Major Burgess had his neck gashed, and that Colonel Rosenthal had been peppered with shrapnel, receiving wounds in the back, his left arm and right knee, totalling in all, thirty six. Fortunately, only two were of a serious nature.

An architect in civilian life, with a love of music and a fine bass voice, Rosenthal entertained other wounded soldiers by singing Handel's 'Arm, Arm Ye Brave' while lying with a crowd of suffering men on a hospital ship moored off Gallipoli. After some weeks in hospital in Egypt, both the men were able to return to duty. Rosenthal was wounded three more times during the war. He kept his damaged blood stained tunic as a souvenir of the event.

Rosenthal was wounded again at Gallipoli, on 20 July 1915. After being evacuated from the Peninsula he saw service again in France and Belgium. He was again wounded in action on 20 December 1916, and finally on 19 July 1918. After the cessation of hostilities on 11 November 1918 Rosenthal helped oversee the repatriation of AIF personnel back to Australia before eventually returning himself on 20 November 1919.

For his distinguished and extensive First World War service he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George, and received the Distinguished Service Order, French and Belgian Croix de Guerre, French Legion d'Honneur (4th Class), and was Mentioned in Despatches seven times.