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10014: Scenes from the Dardanelles

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posted on 2024-01-12, 09:30 authored by Lest 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

Gallipoli (Dardanelles)

Object(s)

Seven postcards, both sides = 14 images

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