b'75393390 393WORLD WAR ONE original photographs including the No.20AUSTRALIAN FORCES CAMPED AT THE GREAT PYRAMIDS Battery, Field Artillery training at Seymour in March 1914; C.OF GIZA, EGYPT: Black and white two page albumen Sub. No.19 Battery F.A. also at Seymour in 1914; an originalpanoramic view,sepia print by Antippa, Cairo, of Australian and British troops22 x 49.5cm, 44 x 71cm overallposing on the Great Pyramid (23 x 29cm); three postcard size$400600photos of the Gallipoli landing, two of which are titled Two hours after landing; an Australian Bristol fighter plane on the394Western front; and an Australian Flying Corp plane on theERNEST ALBERT EPPLE, 1st. AUSTRALIAN MOTOR ground in the Middle East, 1917. (8 items). TRANSPORT SERVICE: WWI tunic with Rising Sun lapel $300400badges and patches (1916-1919) and original Turkish-knot style buttons.391 Epple was in the motor transport battalion. The tunic is made THE AUSTRALIAN NAVAL AND MILITARYfrom barathea material and was probably privately tailored.EXPEDITIONARY FORCE: $5,0006,000Infantry Training. (4-Company Organization) 1914 handbook (265pp + adverts) issued to S.H. WATKINS, No.176. Aus.395Nav. & Mil. Exped. Force, Rabaul. 1914 with his manuscriptA MAKESHIFT POSTCARD FROM GALLIPOLI:details in pen to the Contents page. Accompanied by twoBecause of the shortage of writing materials, the soldiers other associated books, Our New Possessions by Captainpresent during the Gallipoli Campaign had to resort to using J. Lyng (1919), and The Australian Soldiers Gift Bookwhatever they could scrounge. This makeshift card was made edited by Ethel Turner. (3). using the lid from a Special Crown Virginia Cigarette box, The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force wasendorsed ON ACTIVE SERVICE. NO STAMPS AVAILABLE the first military unit raised in 1914 for service overseas. Theand is headed Dear Sweetheart from Shrapnel Valley Australian Government began recruiting sailors and troops aand is addressed to Miss Harding at Harbour Street, Mosman week after Britain entered the war on 4th August 1914. TheBay in Sydney. With a red censorship marking, the date of men captured and occupied German New Guinea and Nauru indespatch has been obscured, but the name of the soldier September 1914. [See also Lot 402 from the same estate] is clearly visible; it was young Horace Peachey, of the 1st $200300Division Australian Signals Co., writing to his sweetheart.Following the landing at Anzac Cove in April 1915, Shrapnel 392 Valley (or Shrapnel Gully) became the main route for Allied WWII-era 9ct gold cufflinks with 17th Battalion A.I.F. colours,troops and supplies between the beach and the frontline in (2). the Anzac sector. Peachey went on to serve at Bullecourt in France where he was awarded a Military Medal for his bravery $150200during the attack on the Hindenburg Line in May 1917. An almost identical card (from a different soldier) is illustrated and described at p.109 of Gary Diffens Preparations for War, and, the Australian Military Campaign at Gallipoli: A Postal History Perspective.$500750 '