Wooden framed picture

Physical description

Small wooden framed copy of photograph under glass.

Inscriptions & markings

Inscription below picture is as follows.
" On 17 December 1915,a famous game of cricket was played at Shell Green,Anzac,as Turkish shells passed overhead. The batsman, Major George MacArthur Onslow, 7th Light Horse Regiment NSW,has just been caught out.
The game was part of the various deceptions planned to deceive the Turks that all was normal at Anzac while the evacuation was being carried out".
Shell Green was the only piece of flat ground for the game to be played on.

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