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Australian Army Museum of Western Australia > Records

World War 1, Eastern Mediterranean, Gallipoli, Anzac Cove, Pier, 1915

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Watson's Pier was constructed by the New Zealanders and was the first pier built at ANZAC Cove. It was named after an Australian, Captain S H Watson in the Signal Service, who supervised the construction using a defused Turkish shell as a pile driver. He was also famously the 'last man off' from ANZAC in the evacuation. Stan Watson became a doyen of the Royal Australian Corps of Engineers; their annual 'Waterloo Dinner' is as much associated with Watson's exploits at Gallipoli as it is with the role of Military Engineers at the Battle of Waterloo 100 years prior.

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