AN AUSTRALIAN DELEGATION HEADED BY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR LESLIE MORSHEAD, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ...

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Accession Number 041461
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Place made Turkey: Canakkale Province, Gallipoli
Date made 25 April 1948
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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AN AUSTRALIAN DELEGATION HEADED BY LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR LESLIE MORSHEAD, KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED, COMMANDER OF TOBRUK GARRISON IN 1941, WITH DELEGATIONS FROM NEW ZEALAND AND THE IMPERIAL WAR GRAVES COMMISSION, EN ROUTE TO THE UNVEILING OF THE AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL AT THE TOBRUK SIEGE CEMETERY, ATTEND AN ANZAC DAY COMMEMORATION SERVICE AT GALLIPOLI. AT LANCASHIRE LANDING CEMETERY, HELLES. LEFT TO RIGHT:- KENNETH MATTHEWS, B.B.C. REPORTER, GENERAL MORSHEAD, BRIGADIER A.E. BROWN, CAPTAIN J.E. MCKEDDIE, MC, AND CAPTAIN F.T.C. LINES, MBE.