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

Four soldiers having a meal at a dugout at Gallipoli. One of a group of seven photographs sent by 181 Private (Pte) Timothy William McCristal, 1st Light Horse, Gallipoli, 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. Caption on back, written by Pte McCristal, reads: "Out of the trenches having a meal in my dugout with four [sic] mates. Like 'at Home'..." 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.