Victor Rupert Laidlaw, In the front line, Anzac Cove, c1915, State Library Victoria. Gift from Mrs E Barker, 1984.

This photograph shows soldiers in the trenches at Anzac Cove, perhaps waiting for their next call to action. The photographer, Private Laidlaw, enlisted in the services on 18 August 1914. His diaries and photographs recall his time en route to Alexandria, at the Mena Camp at Cairo, on Lemnos Island, in the Dardanelles at Cape Helles and Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, and in France.