Anzac fashions, Summer

Eight sketches showing different styles of summer dress that were adopted in Gallipoli. Under the images is written, '1. Australian Sharpshooter disguised as a bush deceives a bird. 2. First signs of summer:- discarded puttees. Infantryman down for a spell from the firing line. 3. Water carrying in hot weather is hard work and requires few clothes. 4. Sun flaps on caps, & shorts had quite a good run. 5. Officer (incog) armed with a stick & bullet-pierced periscope (no periscope complete without bullet holes testifying to hair breath escapee). 6. Gas helmets will never be as popular as home made "shorts". 7. The English made "slacks" (for the "Australian giants") were much too slack except under the arm pits. 8. "Slacks" & a roll of blankets are inclined to give a very Australian appearance'. The artist, Bombardier Arthur Haldane Scott, enlisted at the age of 27 on 14 August 1914 and served in 4th Battery, 2 Field Artillery Brigade. He served at Gallipoli from the landing in April 1915 until the evacuation in December 1915 and later on the Western Front. He contracted meningitis in January 1916 and was returned to Australia for 6 months rest. He was later deemed fit for overseas service and was sent to France. He was gassed in 1917. Scott was awarded the Military Medal in June 1918 for 'conspicuous services'. He was promoted several times to achieve the rank of Temp Sergeant in 1918.
This work was used in 'The ANZAC Book', which was published in 1916 from illustrations, poems, stories and other creative works from the soldiers on the Gallipoli peninsula. In November 1915 CEW Bean, an official war correspondent and eventually official war historian, called for contributions for what was initially to be an ANZAC New Year magazine. Bean edited the work on the island of Imbros and after the Greek publisher fell through, arranged to have the work published in London by Cassell and Company. The book is composed of satirical and sombre pieces about the conditions of life at Gallipoli. It also provides a general outline of the April 25 landing at ANZAC Cove and the military advances, offensives and defensives undertaken in the following months until the eventual evacuation of the Allied forces at the end of December 1915. The introduction was written by General Sir W Birdwood, who explains how he named ANZAC Cove on the Gallipoli peninsula after the ANZAC forces. Bean contributed an editor's note in which he outlined the harsh conditions that the book was produced in, the significance it had taken on, and acknowledged the contributors.