Victor Rupert Laidlaw, Dugouts at Gallipoli, Turkey, c1915, State Library Victoria. Gift from Mrs E Barker, 1984.

This photograph shows a soldier sitting outside his camp, his kit neatly arranged inside his dugout. Camps such as this were dug into the hillsides by the soldiers, covering Anzac Cove. 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.