Two soldiers cutting up barbed wire for jam tin bombs, Gallipoli, 1915
Australian soldiers would make bombs from old jam tins and other used containers, filling them with fragments of Turkish shells and enemy barbed wire. They were made near the beach near Anzac Cove, a place popularly referred to as ‘the bomb factory’.
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Australian War Memorial, G00267
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