• Title
  G. Downes photographs of Gallipoli during World War I, 1915
• Creator
  George Downes, 1893-
• Call number
  PXE 697
  
• Level of description
  series
• Date
  
  1915
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  69840
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  41 photographic prints (in 1 album) - gelatin silver - 21 x 28.5 cm.
  
• Scope and Content
  1. Large sap leading to left flank, showing Sphinx in background
  2. ANZAC taken from Durrant's Post looking toward Suvla
  3. Dug out life, ANZAC Gully
  4. White's Gully looking towards the sea & showing sunken trawler
  5. ANZAC after snowstorm, Nov 1915
  6. ANZAC Corps headquarters at sunset
  7. ANZAC - one of the embarking places built to assist the evacuation
  8. Taken from Lone Pine salient looking back on ANZAC trenches
  9. Rest Gully showing 5th Australian Field Ambulance
  10. ANZAC trenches - firing a periscope rifle. Kaiser as target for Turks
  11. ANZAC - A.S.C. Depot, North Beach showing Sphinx
  12. ANZAC - Cemetery at foot of Shrapnel Gully
  13. ANZAC Beach after severe storm
  14-15. ANZAC - Turkish prisoners taken in Lone Pine & left flank operations, August 1915
  16. Unloading mules, ANZAC Beach
  17. ANZAC - North Beach country taken from some time after August operations
  18. ANZAC Gully & Beach taken from Plugge's Plateau
  19. Portion of ANZAC Beach
  20. Indian Hill, ANZAC
  21. ANZAC - last line of defence near Hell Spit, showing Plugge's Plateau
  22. Supply reserves & Indian mule transport, ANZAC Beach
  23. ANZAC Beach showing Indian mule transport
  24. [grave site] Sacred to the memory of Lieut. C. N. R. Huntley, 1st Fd. Coy. Div. Engrs. A.I.F. Died of wounds 4/5/1915
  25. ANZAC Beach in August 1915
  26. ANZAC Beach prior to August operations showing supply reserves
  27. Walker's Ridge & North Beach country prior to August operations
  28-29. Hell Spit Cemetery, ANZAC
  30. Taken 17/12/15 showing sunken `Milo' from which majority of troops were evacuated
  31. ANZAC Gully
  32. ANZAC - making jam tin bombs
  33. Rest Gully, ANZAC showing Sphinx
  34. Brighton Beach, ANZAC
  35. Shrapnel Gully
  36. Turkish positions opposite Lone Pine
  37. ANZAC Beach showing water condenser
  38. Lord Kitchener & his generals at ANZAC 14/11/15
  39. Hill 971 taken from Durrant's Post
  40. Lord Kitchener's farewell salute at ANZAC 14/11/15
  41. ANZAC Beach just prior to the evacuation
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  A bibliography of servicemen's and women's diaries of World War I is held in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at PXn 878
  State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
  Transferred from PX*D 285
  Digital order no: Album ID : 823228
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  All photographs are titled.
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Australia. Army. Australian Imperial Force (1914-1921)
  World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Turkey--Gallipoli Peninsula--Photographs.
  Kitchener, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl, 1850-1916.
  
• Topic
  armed forces' equipment
  armies
  army camps
  artillery
  beaches
  burial grounds
  campaigns & battles
  hospitals
  Indians
  mules
  prisoners of war
  trench warfare
  troopships
  Turks
  jetties & wharves
  
• Place
  Gallipoli Peninsula (Turkey)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  UNESCO Six - State Library of New South Wales (6 October, 2018 - 5 May, 2019). Applies to: no. 32
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1509539

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