Edward Frederick Robert Bage (1888 - May 7, 1915) was an engineer in the Royal Australian Engineers, and a polar explorer. Events 558 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The Royal Australian Engineers (RAE is a Corps of the Australian Army (although the word corps does not appear in their name or on their badge He joined the army in 1909 after graduating at university with civil engineering. Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design construction and maintenance of the physical and naturally built He participated in Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition in 1912, where he served as astronomer, recorder of times and assistant magnetician, for which he was awarded the King's Polar Medal in 1915. The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was an Australian scientific team that explored part of Antarctica between 1911 and 1914 Historically Astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky while Astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena In Physics, magnetism is one of the Phenomena by which Materials exert attractive or repulsive Forces on other Materials. The Polar Medal is a medal awarded by the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, which was originally instituted in 1857 as the Arctic Medal to reward He was then commissioned to serve in World War One, and was killed only twelve days after the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli, while marking out a trench line near Lone Pine, when he and his companions came under fire from five Turkish machine guns. Gallipoli peninsula (Gelibolu Yarımadası is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles The Battle of Lone Pine, which took place during the Gallipoli campaign from the fourth to the tenth of August was the only successful Australian attack against
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