A British Army lighter taking components of a Maurice Farman aircraft ashore for assembly at the ...

Accession Number H10333
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Place made Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Tenedos Island
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

A British Army lighter taking components of a Maurice Farman aircraft ashore for assembly at the Tenedos Island base. Tenedos was a Greek island which had been offered to the Allies to use as a base and where the flying units used at Gallipoli were based. A line of various types of ships can be seen at anchor behind the lighter.

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