Photograph of the interior of a dug-out showing a soldier sitting at a table during the Gallipoli Campaign.
The Australian War Memorial describes this photo as: Portrait of a member of the 4th Field Ambulance, possibly 1084 Staff Sergeant Arthur George Pascall, in his dugout on the Gallipoli Peninsula. The walls of the dugout are decorated with photographs, a sketch and prints, and a small shelf holds other personal items.
Arthur George Pascall was born at Norwood in South Australia on 27 December 1888. He enlisted on 22/12/1914 and served with the 4th Field Ambulance 1st A.I.F. until 22 January 1919. On 30 May 1917 while serving in France he was awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. He died on 28 March 1961 and was buried in the North Brighton Cemetery.
From an album of photographs taken by Harold Vynne Woods at Anzac Cove in 1915. Shows scenes in the camps, huts, trenches and dugouts, beach scenes showing the detritus of the landing and in one case a naked digger bathing, and a fine series of posed and unposed group and individual photographs of diggers, both at rest and on duty. Photographically this is a remarkably successful series of snapshots, many of the images are beautifully composed and framed and it is possible that Woods was quite experienced.
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.
