A large crowd of Turkish prisoners, captured during fighting in early August 1915, sitting on the ...

Accession Number C03398
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Marmara, Chanak, Gallipoli Peninsula
Date made c August 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A large crowd of Turkish prisoners, captured during fighting in early August 1915, sitting on the ground in an enclosure above Anzac Cove. The compound was situated near the 1st Australian Divisional Headquarters, where Australian Intelligence Officers searched and interrogated the prisoners before moving them to neighbouring islands.

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