The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Bodies of dead soldiers, probably all Australian, killed during the Battle of Lone Pine in August 1915, lie on the ground as they fell. This area in front of the Lone Pine trenches was too exposed for any of the bodies to be recovered. Captain (Capt) H R Poate, a doctor serving in the 1st Field Ambulance, noted in his diary for 6 September 1915, "walked to Lone Pine", his only visit. This one of two photographs taken by Capt Poate from the first of the captured Turkish trenches looking west over the area the Australians attacked from on the 6 August 1915.
Looking back from Lone Pine to the jumping off trench from which the 1st Australian Infantry Brigade commenced its successful attack on Lone Pine on 6 August 1915. Several corpses are lying in the for
Bodies of dead soldiers, probably all Australian, killed during the Battle of Lone Pine in August 1915, lie on the ground as they fell. This area in front of the Lone Pine trenches was too exposed for
Men of the 1st Battalion burying the dead in the right hand end of the Lone Pine trenches, which the 1st Brigade captured on 6 August 1915. In this trench Lieutenant Frederick Harold Tubb, 2130 Corpor
Pre enlistment studio portrait of Captain (Capt) Alfred John Shout VC, 1st Battalion, in civilian clothes. Capt Shout was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for "most conspicuous bravery at Lone
Valley of Despair, Pine Ridge, Bolton's Hill, Ryrie's Post area, Chatham's Post area, Wheatfield, Lone Pine (Turkish trenches). Pre August offensive 1915.
The ground across which the 1st Battalion attacked Lone Pine on 6 August 1915, seen from the old Turkish front line at Lone Pine. The ground is strewn with debris; the body of a soldier killed in the
Lone Pine, Gallipoli. 1915-05-19. Bodies of Turkish soldiers killed during their unsuccessful attack on Australian trenches. (Donor A.E. Lancaster)
