As casualties lists from the Gallipoli Campaign became known in Australia from early May 1915, it became a practice to publish a photograph of individuals. These photographs were supplied by the families of the person on the casualty list. There were few photographs published in relation to the number of casualties listed. To give the extent of the human tragedy that unfolded, the photographs were extracted from the various newspapers and placed in this album. Each photograph is clearly identified to an individual and brief details are given as a short biography.
For a comprehensive listing of photographs in the album, see:
Gallipoli Album, May 1915, Contents
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Lest We Forget
IT will he remembered that, in his graphic account of the first few days' fighting near Gaba Tepe Ashmead Bartlett referred to the amazing coolness of the Australian and New Zealand troops, who, whenever the opportunity offered, found their way down to the little beach, and plunged into the water, in which they joyfully disported themselves, shrapnel were bursting around them. Many of the soldiers who have told of the pleasurable excitement experienced while having a "dip" under these strange conditions. Some of them received their wounds in this way; but on the whole, the casualties sustained in the water were remarkably few.
Sydney Mail, 1 September 1915, p. 22.
For a comparison, see:
Bathing to the Accompaniment of Bursting Shells - RH Moppett Illustration.