Collection relating to the service of 181 Private Timothy William McCristal, 1st Light Horse

Informal portrait of 181 Private (Pte) Timothy William McCristal, 1st Light Horse, Gallipoli. One of a group of seven photographs sent by Pte McCristal to his friend 8/508 William Woods, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, in the mid-late 1920's. Pte McCristal and Woods were likely to have met while in hospital at Gallipoli recovering from wounds. An incomplete caption on back, written by Pte McCristal, reads: "This is myself snapped just before taking up my position in the trenches on Aug 6th (saturday afternoon) whilst the 1st ... Brigade ... at holts with the Turks at Lone Pine. We cheered them into it, and my word what a charge it was. In the ... point blank range, ... them from Popes that ... on Popes, hopped ... daybreak next morning ... so you know, got a ... leaning out or a ... myself included ... remember the ... shelter sheds ..." Pte McCristal was wounded during an attack on a Turkish position on 7 August 1915 and invalided back to Australia. He became a colourful and controversial figure in the mid-twentieth century NSW labour movement.

• Collection relating to the service of 181 Private Timothy William McCristal, 1st Light Horse
• Collection relating to the service of 181 Private Timothy William McCristal, 1st Light Horse
• Collection relating to the service of 181 Private Timothy William McCristal, 1st Light Horse
• Collection relating to the service of 181 Private Timothy William McCristal, 1st Light Horse
• Collection relating to the service of 181 Private Timothy William McCristal, 1st Light Horse
• Collection relating to the service of 181 Private Timothy William McCristal, 1st Light Horse