The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
An informal group portrait of all that is left of the original 12 officers and 300 other ranks of the 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train that landed with the British Army at Suvla Bay on 7 August 1915, taken on the first anniversary. The Commanding Officer (CO) of the unit, Lieutenant Commander L S Bracegirdle DSO, is seated three rows from the front and to the top right of the life buoy.
"Kangaroo Beach Suvla with camp of 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train and cemetery on left" (Original inscription)."Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. Our permanent 'Crib' Piers at 'Kangaroo' Beach" (Album
MELBOURNE, VIC, ?1918. STUDIO PORTRAIT OF COMMANDER LEIGHTON S. BRACEGIRDLE DSO, RAN, COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE 1ST ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL BRIDGING TRAIN AT SUVLA BAY, GALLIPOLI, 1915. IN 1917 HE WAS
"Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. British infantry at work on a sunken road". (Album caption). This image is from the second of two albums relating to the service of Lieutenant Commander Leighton Seymour Braceg
"Indian Mule Corps lines at Suvla" (Original inscription). "View of Suvla Bay with usual strafe going on in distance" (Album caption). This image is from one of two albums (P11155 and P11165) relating
"Ordnance Dump West Beach Suvla Bay " (Album caption). A page from one of two albums (P11155 and P11165) relating to the service of Lieutenant Commander Leighton Seymour Bracegirdle RAN (later Command
"Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. West Beach end of sunken road completed". (Album caption). " West Beach Suvla with steamer loaded with stones as a Breakwater" (Original inscription). This image is from the sec
