World War 1, Europe Turkey Gallipoli, 1915
1915View of Anzac Cove from the sea. Now identified as taken by Colonel Charles Ryan and described as "Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. c May 1915. A view of the beach at Anzac Cove from the water. Plugge's Plateau can be seen in the background" Australian War Memorial Catalogue # P02647.016
Thanks to the research efforts of Dr Michael Sturmfels, of the “Friends of Gallipoli” a number of photographs in the collection of the Australian Army Museum of Western Australia have now been identified as the work of Sir Charles Ryan.
In 1915, soldier and surgeon Sir Charles Ryan captured the Australians’ experience on Gallipoli via a series of candid photographs. Ryan’s sensitivity, his empathy with those on both sides, and his eye for the remarkable – and the remarkable in the everyday – are apparent in his photographic work. His images take us behind the stirring accounts of battle being reported at home to reveal the dry, forbidding landscape, tired troops in the trenches, squalid dug-outs, and the horrendous task of burying the dead. Charles Ryan had a remarkable life, including service as a doctor with the Turkish army in 1877–78 and a close encounter with Ned Kelly, whom he treated at Glenrowan. During his career as a leading Melbourne surgeon and his long service as a senior military officer, he received high civil and military recognition.
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