Immerse yourself in a sea of anemones as you piece together this puzzle, featuring a poignant moment captured by Australian photographer Frank Hurley.

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The story:

Appointed an official war photographer during the First World War, Frank Hurley travelled along the Western Front, where he produced some of the finest photographs of his career. Hurley built a reputation for creating dramatic imagery with a strong aesthetic, producing composite images, combining fragments from different negatives, and dabbling in the use of Paget Plates: a series of red, green and blue filters that enabled the photographer to capture images in colour.

This photograph, captured as a Paget Plate negative, depicts Trooper George Redding of the 8th Light Horse Regiment, collecting anemones - otherwise known as poppies - growing wild in Palestine. Redding enlisted in Benalla, Victoria, in 1915, claiming to be 44. It was later discovered that he was 57 when he enlisted, making him nearly 61 years old at the time this photograph was taken.

The original photograph is held in the Memorial's National Collection - view it here.

Image credit: James Francis (Frank) Hurley. An Australian Light Horseman collecting anemones near Belah in Palestine. c. 1918. Paget plate photograph. Australian War Memorial, Canberra. P03631.046.

Note: The original photograph has been cropped to fit the puzzle.