Collection related to the service of Harold Arthur Barker

Place Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Accession Number J05587
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Barker, Harold Arthur
Place made Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Date made c April 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

In a dugout of the 7th Machine Gun Section at the Gallipoli Peninsula are, left to right: 56 Private (Pte) Frank Walker, of Bendigo, Vic, who enlisted on 18 August 1914 an later served as a Quartermaster Sergeant with the 15th Machine Gun Battalion. He was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) on 1 January 1918; and 44 Pte Frank Stanley (Stanley) Bowman, of Essendon, Vic, who enlisted on 18 August 1914.