The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Private (Pte) Wild (probably 795 Private Arthur Wild, later awarded the Military Medal and commissioned) and Private Woods (probably either 1066 Pte F J Woods, or 1138 Pte L V Woods ) both of D Company, 13th Battalion on HMT Ascot just prior to landing on Gallipoli. All three men survived the war. The photograph was taken to show bundles of faggots carried on each man's back as well as water bottles strapped to the pack, extra ammunition in bandoliers and double iron ration in haversack.
D Company, 13th Battalion, on board HMT Ulysses en route to Alexandria. All the men are wearing life jackets, probably as part of a lifeboat drill. Captain James William Albert Simpson, standing sec
The Russian cruiser Askold, nicknamed the 'Packet of Woodbines' on account of the appearance of her five funnels (and possibly also because of the amount of smoke they belched), seen from HMT Ascot in
Three unidentified members of the 13th Battalion with a dog captured from the Turks in the Aghyl Dere valley on the Gallipoli Peninsula and named 'Joe Bourke'. Note the small satchel strapped to the
Sarpi Camp on the Greek island of Lemnos near the Turkish coast. The troopship HMT Borda, carrying British reinforcements, is on the left in the background. Lemnos was lent by Greece as a base for t
The submarine AE2 escorting an Australian convoy through the Gulf of Aden, as seen from HMT Ulysses. This submarine, launched in mid 1913, was sunk in the Dardanelles by the Turks on 30 April 1915; a
The 13th Battalion in the process of embarking on board HMAT Ulysses, probably the ship on the right. The unidentified ship on the left is possibly another transport.
