Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 1915. A Turkish trench which seriously blocked the advance of the ...

Place Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli, Sari Bair Area, Chailak Dere
Accession Number G01152
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Date made 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. 1915. A Turkish trench which seriously blocked the advance of the Mounted Rifles in the next gully, Chailak Dere, on the night of 6/7 August 1915. The barbed wire in the front of it was finally cleared away by New Zealand Engineers and Maori at about 11 p.m.