Post from Turkish machine gun position : German Officer's Trench, Gallipoli

Two rough wooden posts lashed together with steel straps attached by large nails. The upper ends have been roughly squared and both have roughly cut rectangular notches, presumably to support horizontal logs. The lower end of each post is rotted and damaged where it has been placed in the ground. One side has been painted with address information for the Australian War Museum (later Australian war Memorial) in Melbourne.

These posts were found at a machine gun position at German Officer's Trench on 6 March 1919 by members of the Australian Historical Mission. The AHM, led by Official Historian C E W Bean, visited Gallipoli from February to March 1919 to collect items for the nation, to record the area through artworks and photographs, and to explore the battlefields to answer some of the 'riddles of Anzac' for the Australian official history of the war.

German Officer's Trench was a Turkish position across from Steele's Post. It was a strongly fought over position as the Turkish machine guns located there could enfilade no man's land in front of Quinn's Post.