Victor Rupert Laidlaw, Medical corps in action at Gallipoli, Turkey, c1915, State Library Victoria. Gift from Mrs E Barker, 1984.

A patient receives medical treatment in a makeshift dressing station at Gallipoli. The medical services at Anzac Cove were greatly challenged by the sheer number of casualties and the lack of planning. Private Laidlaw, the photographer, 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.