Soldier Boy the Play:

Act 2, Scene 3: Wire Gully

Wire Gully above Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, as it is now.

Here, Jim Martin was sent to the trenches along the ridge line with "A" Company of the 21st Battalion when they landed in early September 1915, relieving the 8th Battalion.

It was named for the barbed wire entanglements laid to hinder Turkish attacks.

Today the gully is green with shrubs and trees. Then, it was pretty barren, laid waste by shell and gunfire. Note the war cemetery further down the gully.