An artists’ impression of the action on 7 August 1915 for which Corporal Cyril Bassett, Divisional Signals, New Zealand Engineers, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, was awarded the Victoria Cross. In reality, Bassett spend over three days, exposed to Turkish rifle and shell fire, on the exposed slopes of Rhododendron Spur leading up to Chunuk Bair, attempting to run and repair telephone lines up to front line positions. Turkish shells can be seen exploding towards the top left of the drawing. This image, unlike that of the Will’s cigarette card on this same page, does at least give an impression of the steep slopes of the countryside over which Bassett laid his lines. On 9 August, Bassett personally mended three lines on Rhododendron Spur during which time the whole area was being subjected to Turkish fire. Basset jokingly attributed his survival to his short stature – ‘I was so short the bullets passed over me’.[Drawing in Stephen Snelling, VCs of the First World War: Gallipoli, Stroud, 1995, p.183]