Outdoor portrait of Djemal (Dschemal/Cemal) Pasha (left) and Oberst Werner von Frankenberg. ...

Accession Number P11504.002
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made Ottoman Empire
Date made c 1917-1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright unknown - orphaned work

Description

Outdoor portrait of Djemal (Dschemal/Cemal) Pasha (left) and Oberst Werner von Frankenberg. Djemal Pasha was one of the triumvirate who ruled Turkey during the First World War. He was appointed the leader of the Ottoman Army against the British forces in Egypt, Palestine and Syria. Oberst Frankenberg was the commander of the "Asien Korps" in Palestine in 1917. Photograph possibly taken on the occasion of Kaiser Wilhelm II's visit to Constantinople and the Gallipoli battlefields on 15th-16th October 1917.

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