The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Ambrose Sheppard, then, 17 put his age up by three years to enlist. He joined the 15th Battalion and after the evacuation of Gallipoli was sent to Egypt and then to France in 1916. His unit went straight into action and remained in France until the end of the war. He became a machine gunner and fought in the Battle of the Somme and all other major battles in which Australians were involved in France. Ambrose became a Sergeant and was still in France for Christmas 1917. He re-enlisted in the Second World War and served in New Guinea as a Corporal in the Military Police. Depicts a study for portrait of Mr Ambrose Sheppard, on pilgrimage for the 75th anniversary of the Landing at Gallipoli. The reflection on the glasses are of the dark cliffs against a dawn sky, as of the morning of April 25, 1914. In this way, the painting suggest the power of the Peninsula on the veterans memory and the force of the Anzac experience on his vision of the world.
Ambrose Sheppard, then 17, put his age up by three years to enlist. He joined the 15th Battalion and after the evacuation of Gallipoli was sent to Egypt and then to France in 1916. His unit went strai
Alec Campbell was only 16 when he enlisted in Launceston straight from school in July 1915. He arrived at Gallipoli in October 1915 with the 15th Battalion and was there through to the evacuation. Aft
Alec Campbell was only 16 when he enlisted in Launceston straight from school in June 1915. He arrived at Gallipoli in October 1915 with the 15th Battalion and was there through to the evacuation. Aft
Alec Campbell was only 16 when he enlisted in Launceston straight from school in June 1915. He arrived at Gallipoli in October 1915 with the 15th Battalion and was there through to the evacuation. Aft
Leslie Hales put his age up and enlisted under the name of Hayes to join the AIF in Melbourne, 1914. He left Australia with the first convoy and landed in Gallipoli with the 16th Battalion in Anzac Da
Robert joined the Light Horse in Gladstone, but switched to the infantry. He landed at Gallipoli with A Company, 9th Battalion in 1915. He was evacuated to a Cairo hospital with a fever and dysentery.
