Images from the Phillip Schuler collection, both taken by and acquired by him.

Accession Number PS1533
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Schuler, Phillip Frederick Edward
Place made Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Date made 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

A water point. This photograph had the following caption in Phillip Schuler's "The Battlefields of Anzac": "New Zealanders and Maoris at the Famous Well, No 2 Post. Over 20,000 British, Australasian and New Zealand troops and 4000 mules were supplied with water from this well daily during the fight for Sari Bair ridge." Phillip Schuler. Identified is probably Charles Bean, the Australian Official Correspondent (centre, back to camera).

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