Frederick Tubb
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Major Frederick Harold Tubb, VC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Captain Frederick Tubb c.1916
Battle of Lone Pine
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The Battle of Lone Pine, also known as the Battle of Bloody Ridge, was fought between Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and Ottoman Empire forces during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World W
Frederick Tubb
…lieutenant in the 7th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force, during the First World War, when he was awarded the VC for his actions on 9 August 1915 at Lone Pine, Gallipoli. Lieutenant Tubb held a newly captured trench which was being counter-attacked by the enemy, who blew in a sand-bag barricade, leaving only…
Detail from The Taking of Lone Pine by Fred Leist, 1921
Australian troops in a captured Ottoman trench at Lone Pine, 6 August 1915
A captured Ottoman trench at Lone Pine
The cemetery at Lone Pine