The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. October 1915. A trench on the Razor Back overlooking White Valley, held for a time by the Turks on 25 April 1915. There were a few scattered trenches similar to this in the scrub but the Turks seldom attempted to defend them. Many of the trenches were well constructed and often hidden with brushwood. This material, when dry, turned brown, the result being that a dry, brown line through the scrub always indicated a trench.
Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915. A communication trench that the Australians have captured from the Turks, with the dead body of a Turkish soldier lying in the foreground. What may be another bloated corpse l
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. November 1915. In order to screen traffic from the sight of the Turks on the hills brushwood screens were put up which, although affording no protection against enemy fire
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. May 1915. The trenches occupied by the French, had been approached by the Turks during the night of 15 May 1915. French machine gunners are shown in waiting for a further
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. August 1915. Although guns and stores were sometimes placed very close to hospitals, owing to lack of space, the Turks seldom sent shells among the hospital tents. Shown,
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. October 1915. Shrapnel shelters on Razor Back, Gallipoli. These shelters were dug hurriedly during the early days at Anzac, and were strange contrasts to the trenches cons
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. June 1915. As a result of the Turks shelling the beach from Gaba Tepe to Olive Grove, all animals were moved up into the gullies.
