Place | Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Anzac Area (Gallipoli), Lone Pine Area, Lone Pine |
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Accession Number | A04062 |
Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Black & white - Print silver gelatin |
Maker |
Jacobs, Harold |
Place made | Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Anzac Area (Gallipoli), Lone Pine Area, Lone Pine |
Date made | 9 August 1915 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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1st Battalion troops having taken 80 yards of a Turkish trench, waiting near Jacob's Trench for ...
Description
1st Battalion troops having taken 80 yards of a Turkish trench, waiting near Jacob's Trench for relief by the 7th Battalion. Identified from left: 1. Captain Cecil Duncan Sasse, (with eyes bandaged, later Lieutenant Colonel, DSO and Bar, MID); 3. 2211 Private George Wood (with legs crossed); 5. 2173 Private Martin Maher, (smoking pipe); 6. 2190 Claude Wilfred Leo Pittendrigh (hands near rifle muzzle); unidentified (not numbered). These men had been fighting continuously from the beginning of the Lone Pine attack on 6 August 1915.