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Accession Number | RELAWM00386.001 |
Collection type | Technology |
Object type | Munition |
Physical description | Brass |
Location | Main Bld: First World War Gallery: The Anzac Story: Gallipoli: The Grand Plan |
Maker |
Unknown |
Date made | Pre 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Cartridge cases and charger clips: Hill 161, Gallipoli
Collection of nine .303 cartridge clips, 21 spent Turkish cartridges, six spent Australian cartridges used at Hill 161 on Gallipoli.
Official Historian CEW Bean recorded in his diary for 18 February 1919 collecting these cartridges with two projectiles at Hill 161 (sometimes recorded as Hill 261), a crest located on a rise between Battleship Hill and Chunuk Bair at Gallipoli, while he was searching for the positions reached by a group under Captain Eric William Tulloch of the 11th Battalion on 25 April 1915.
On the day of the landing at ANZAC Cove, Tulloch's group reached the northeastern slope of Battleship Hill, the furthest point in this direction reached by Australian soldiers. They fought the Turks for half an hour before they were forced to retreat under increasing Turkish fire.
The discovery of the projectiles among Turkish cartridges, indicated to Bean one of the positions where the had Turks fired on Tulloch's men, and were the Australians had fired on them in return.