Wire netting : Quinn's Post, Gallipoli

Folded bundle of lengths of rusted wire netting, or 'chicken wire'. There are two short lengths of British barbed wire woven into the netting, some thinner pieces of wire through part of the bundle which may be from communication cables, along with some thicker wire tangled into the netting. There are also some organic remains, such including grass and wood.

Wire netting collected at Quinn's Post, Gallipoli. It was probably found at there in 1919 by members of the Australian War Records Section or the Australian Historical Mission (AHM).

The small party of AWRS staff, led by Lieutenant William Hopkin James, worked on Gallipoli between December 1918 and March 1919, taking photographs and collecting items for the national collection. The AHM, led by Official Historian C E W Bean, visited Gallipoli from February to March 1919 to collect items for the nation, to record the area through artworks and photographs, and to explore the battlefields to answer some of the 'riddles of Anzac' for the Australian official history of the war.