Tuesday, 17 July 2007

38. Pte GH True

Tasmanian Pte George H True 58 of the 12th Battalion AIF was killed in action on 20 May 1915, aged 21. He is buried in Shell Green Cemetery (Artillery Road Plot).

37. Pte TG Noakes

English born Pte Thomas C Noakes 578 of the 11th Battalion AIF was killed in action on 1 August 1915, aged 28. He is buried in Shell Green Cemetery.

36. Sgt RR Nairn

This is the cross "in loving memory of" Sgt Robert R Nairn 4/654 of the 2nd Field Coy, New Zealand Field Engineers. He was killed in action on 2 August 1915, aged 24, when a large mortar he had been working on to attack Turkish positions at Quinn's Post exploded and killed him. He is buried in Shrapnel Valley Cemetery.

35. Spr WJ Busbridge

This is the cross of Spr William J Busbridge 4/168a of the 1st Field Coy New Zealand Engineers. He was killed in action during an hour long shelling of New Zealand positions by three Turkish guns on the evening of 23 June 1915. He was 20 years old.
He is buried in Beach Cemetery but one can see from the bluff and other features behind that his original grave lay very close to Gnr Albert Masters' cross (Photo 32).

34. Trpr N Campion

This difficult to make out image is nevertheless identifiable as Trpr Neil Campion 11/32 of the Wellington Mounted Rifles NZEF, killed in action on 26 May 1915, aged 22. He is buried in Ari Burnu Cemetery.
It is the only painted stone in all of Duffy's images and leaves the possibility that it survived the Turkish return to the Anzac positions and could theoretically still be in the locality.

Monday, 16 July 2007

33. Pte J Murry, Pte BS Barker & Pte F Boland

In this view of Shrapnel Gully Cemetery the two individuals commemorated by the main cross are, in fact, Pte Jack Murry (correct spelling) 8/1810 and Pte Benjamin S Barker (not Parker) 8/1699, both of the Otago Regiment, NZEF and both killed in action on 13 July 1915.

On the cross behind, an inscription for another New Zealander can be made out: Pte Frank Boland 6/885 of the Canterbury Regiment, NZEF, killed in action on 31 July 1915, aged 38. He had been wounded the previous May but returned to the trenches in June.

32. Gnr AH Masters

Gnr Albert H Masters 1816 of the 8th Coy, Divisional Ammunition Park died of wounds on 30 June 1915, aged 24.
He is buried in Ari Burnu Cemetery. The bluff behind is very characteristic of this cemetery's location - towards the northern end of Anzac Cove, it sits just above the shore line upon the beach where the Anzacs made their dawn landing on 25 April 1915.