posted on 2024-01-12, 09:30authored byLest We Forget Project Team
Seven postcards showing scenes from the Dardanelles, with detailed captions on the reverse: 1. A periscope in the trenches 2. British staff officers questioning captured Turkish officers 3. Naval guns landed at Cape Helles 4. French battery in action near Sedd-el-Bahr 5. Ambulance wagon passing through gulley 6. The crew of the "Crampus" acclaim the submarine E.II returning from the Dardanelles 7. Counter-torpedoes going to land troops for destroying the forts at the entrance of the strait 1-5: printed in England 6-7: printed in Paris, text in French and English
History
Name of contributor(s)
Alathea Anderssohn
Subject of the story/individual the object(s) relate to
The postcards belonged to Emlyn James of the Herefordshire Regiment, who served at Gallipoli from August to November 1915.
Date(s) the event(s) in the story took place
1915
Location(s) where the event(s) in the story took place