Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 1915-05. Sergeant W. C. B. Beech, 2nd Battalion, 1st Australian ...

Accession Number G01001A
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Date made May 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

Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 1915-05. Sergeant W. C. B. Beech, 2nd Battalion, 1st Australian Infantry Brigade, devised a means of firing a rifle with a periscopic sight with the first being set up on the beach at Anzac about the end of the month.