The initial grave of 2027 Gunner (Gnr) Athol Wynne Parry, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade. Gnr Parry, ...

Accession Number P00046.058
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Anzac Area (Gallipoli), Lone Pine Area, Brown's Dip
Date made c November 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

The initial grave of 2027 Gunner (Gnr) Athol Wynne Parry, 3rd Field Artillery Brigade. Gnr Parry, a clerk from Launceston, Tas prior to enlistment, embarked from Melbourne on HMAT Geelong on 17 September 1914. On 11 May 1915 he was killed in action aged 19 and was buried in the Brown's Dip Cemetery, Gallipoli. Following the consolidation of many grave sites at the end of the war, he was re-interred in the Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli.