World War 1, Europe Turkey Gallipoli, 1915
1915Indian Mule driver (Image reversed). Now identified as taken by Colonel Charles Ryan and described as "Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. c May 1915. An Indian standing in the horse and mule lines in a gully off Anzac Beach. Note the Indian's turban." Australian War Memorial Catalogue # P02649.012
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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