An awkward corner near north east limit of our advance. Turks held up part of 4th Australian ...

Accession Number G01178A
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Place made Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Marmara, Chanak, Gallipoli Peninsula
Date made August 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

An awkward corner near north east limit of our advance. Turks held up part of 4th Australian Infantry Brigade, here for a short time on 7 July 1915. Two Turks in particular were noticed having sniping duel with one Australian. An officer who saw them came back afterwards to see the result. The Australian was shot dead through the head. He had no identity disc but in his hand was a bit of paper and on it written "Private Savoff, 14th Battalion." The officer had him buried.