Lieutenant Colonel Richard Edmond Courtney CB, VD (8 September 1870 – 21 October 1919) was an Australian soldier during the First World War. Courtney's Post, now the site of a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula, is named in his honour.
Courtney, Richard Edmond, 1870-1919
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Moore-Jones, Horace Millichamp, 1868-1922: [Courtney's Post, Gallipoli]
Date: [ca 1916]
By: Moore-Jones, Horace Millichamp, 1868-1922
Reference: B-198-017
Description: A watercolour sketch showing the Gallipoli landscape of Courtney's Post, a front line position under New Zealand command. The location was situated between Quinn's Post to the north and Steel's Post to the south. It was named after Lieutenent Colonel Richard Courtney, the Australian military engineer who supervised its construction. The daytime scene shows the steep winding path from the floor of Monash Gully, leading to the entrenchments near the lip of the ridge, only metres away from the Turkish trenches. Figures and makeshift lean-tos are dotted amongst the scrub on the hillside. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - Sapper H. Moore-Jones [in brushpoint] A very similar composition dated 1915 is in the collection of the Australian War Memorial (ID ART03261) Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on card. Physical Description: Watercolour with pencil on card, 325 x 225 mm Provenance: Prior to purchase, in a private collection, Nelson