Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 22 May 1915. The Turkish envoy who brought the request, for an ...

Accession Number G00989
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Date made 22 May 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 22 May 1915. The Turkish envoy who brought the request, for an armistice to enable the Turks to bury their dead, was carried on a stretcher over the trip wires in the water by two naked bathers. The officer had been blindfolded before approaching the entanglements.

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