PRIVATE WATSON STANDING NEAR A MACHINE GUN DUGOUT NEAR SHELL GREEN. THE MEMORIAL CROSS, THE ...

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Accession Number P00741.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Place made Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
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PRIVATE WATSON STANDING NEAR A MACHINE GUN DUGOUT NEAR SHELL GREEN. THE MEMORIAL CROSS, THE ORIGINAL GRAVE MARKER, IN THE CENTRE FOREGROUND MARKS THE ORIGINAL BURIAL PLACE OF 495 TROOPER W J C KIDMAN AND 443 PRIVATE W H O'BRIEN OF THE 6TH AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE WHO WERE KILLED IN ACTION ON 12 JULY 1915. O'BRIEN'S GRAVE WAS MOVED TO THE SHELL GREEN CEMETERY.