Gallipoli (117 page)

Keep your hair short and the lice at bay. Note well-established dugout in background. (AWM J02604)

A communication trench, either on 400 Plateau or near Bridges' Road, around May 1915. Note the men sleeping on the floor of the trench, and the hole dug into the side of the trench used for storage or as a place to sleep. (AWM P02667.013)

Home, sweet home. (AWM P02647.012)

Summer has hit and there is torpor in the air; the heat shimmers as the sun shines. (AWM P02649.032)

In the quarter-master's makeshift store at Anzac Cove, the walls are made of boxes of corned beef. Rows of either petrol or water cans are in the foreground. (AWM P02648.030)

A cricket game is tentatively staged by the ‘Die Hards' at Shell Green on 17 December 1915 to trick the dumbfounded Turks into thinking it business as usual for the languid colonials. (C
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‘You have only to dig, dig, dig, until you are safe!' (C
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General Birdwood (behind) gets a fix on Johnny Turk's trenches just 30 yards distant. (AWM G00572A)

Lance-Corporal Beech's invention, the periscope rifle, utilised by a soldier of the 2nd Light Horse Regiment, probably at Quinn's Post, while his mate to the right checks the results with a trench periscope. (AWM H10324)

Machine guns, invaluable for providing covering fire during Allied attacks, were increased from two to four per battalion in August 1915 under Minister of Munitions Lloyd George. (C
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‘Straight of limb, true of eye,
steady and aglow
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Having been rested at Lemnos, the battle-hardened 7th Battalion heads back to Anzac. (C
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