Gallipoli photos found in old cigarette tin feature in exhibition honouring Anzacs
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Corporel Bankia extracts a tooth from a patient at Gallipoli.
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When a West Australian chemist and World War I veteran died in a car crash in 1955, 480 letters were delivered to his family s doorstep in hessian bags.
Most were from grateful patients he had treated for free during the Great Depression but Lionel Sargent left more than a legacy of compassion and generosity.
Among his personal effects was a rusting cigarette tin containing 80 photographs he had taken at Gallipoli. He came over in WWI and took several photos in Egypt where they were camped, somewhere near Cairo, said his grandson, Geoff Sargent.