Soldiers in a trench at Gallipoli

Photograph of a 'sap' (a deep narrow trench constructed to approach an enemy's position), with several soldiers sitting in the trench. The caption for the original photograph reads 'A "T" Sap, Walker's Ridge."

CEW Bean describes this photo as 'taken on 'Walker's Ridge' in May 1915. (The light horseman who is smoking in the background and the private in the foreground were father and son.) ... Taken by Pte. H.V. Woods, 4th Fld. Amb.' Official history of Australia in the war 1914-1918, Volume 12 photographic record, plate 77.

From an album of photographs taken by Harold Vynne Woods at Anzac Cove in 1915.

Twenty-five year old carpenter, Harold Vynne Woods, enlisted at Morphettville on 22 September 1914, joining the 4th Field Ambulance. After promotion to Sergeant he was selected to attend Officer Cadet Battalion and on qualifying for a commission was promoted to Lieutenant. He was wounded in France in May 1918 and returned to Australia in October 1918. After the war he lived at Victor Harbor and died on 20 December 1993, aged 104.