Anzac Images
We enclose a selection of paintings and photographs from the Australian War Memorial in Canberra for your consideration. They deal with the Battle of Lone Pine, 6-9 August 1915.
The two paintings by Drew Harrison and Fred Leist were originally in colour. We have changed them to black & white to comply with e-book uploading size. The photographic images were taken by individual cameramen on the battle site.
The Battle of Lone Pine – by Drew Harrison (2013)
The Taking of Lone Pine – by Fred Leist (1921)
6/8/1915 - Australian soldiers in captured Turkish trench. Note the overhead cover of pine logs.- photo by Philip Schuler
10/8/1915 – Australian soldiers relax in Lone Pine trenches, day after end of the battle
Australian soldiers in
captured Turkish
trench, Private James Bryant 8th Battalion Vic
(looking at
camera),
Captain Leslie
Morshead 2nd Battalion NSW (looking up at the dead lying on the lip of the trench)
– photo by Philip
Schuler.
In World War II, Morshead went
on to command the 9th Australian Division in the Middle East and
New Guinea while Bryant, who also served in that war in the
8th Division, went into captivity at the fall of Singapore in
February 1942 and survived three and a half years as a Japanese
POW.
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