Accession Number | G00989 |
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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 This item is in the Public Domain |
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 22 May 1915. The Turkish envoy who brought the request, for an ...
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.