The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Gallipoli, Turkey. 1915. Williams Pier on North Beach. Some horse drawn two wheeled carts are on the edge of the beach. A shell burst seen dimly in the background had been fired from Beachy Bill. Beachy Bill was the name given to a Turkish Army artillery battery which concentrated on the beaches and caused heavy casualities among Allied troops. The battery was eventually destroyed by an AIF field gun and gunfire from a British Navy ship. (Donor Mrs R. Smith)
A shrapnel shell fired by 'Beachy Bill' bursting over Watson's Pier at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula. 'Beachy Bill', a Turkish artillery battery at Olive Grove, concentrated on the beaches an
Bathers coming ashore in barges at Anzac Cove to seek shelter from 'Beachy Bill', a Turkish artillery battery sited inland which routinely shelled the beach and caused allied casualties. Several bathe
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. July 1915. As soon as Watson's Pier was finished at Anzac Cove the G.H.Q. torpedo boat attempted to use it but was at once chased away by the Turkish gun known as Beachy B
Gallipoli, Turkey. 1915. Souvenired by Australian troops, a dud shell from the Turkish artillery battery known as 'Beachy Bill' stands on a box in the Australian positions at Anzac Cove. The Turkish b
GALLIPOLI, TURKEY. SHELLS FROM A TURKISH ARTILLERY BATTERY, KNOWN AS BEACHY BILL, BURSTING OVER AN AREA ABOVE ANZAC COVE OCCUPIED BY THE 4TH AUSTRALIAN FIELD AMBULANCE, AIF.
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. c. 1 August 1915. The boat that replenished the water supply, stored in tanks on a great platform above Anzac Cove. The vessel used to come to Anzac Pier and pump the wate
