C01811 Accession Number: C01811

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Portrait of Major (Maj) Duncan John Glasfurd, General Staff Officer II, 1st Division Headquarters, as seen a few days after the landing at Anzac Cove. Maj Glasfurd, seconded from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was Director of Military Training in Australia when the First World War broke out; he largely supervised the training of the 1st Division at Mena in Egypt. He later died of wounds in France on 12 November 1916 while holding the rank of Brigadier General and commanding the 12th Brigade.

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Accession Number
C01811
Maker
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Date Made
April 1915
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Lent by Major R A Ramsay
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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