Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. October 1915. The breakwater at Helles made out of sunken steamers. ...

Accession Number G01372
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Date made October 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

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Description

Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. October 1915. The breakwater at Helles made out of sunken steamers. This was not nearly so solid as the French breakwater at Sedd-El-Bahr, which was protected by the sunken battleship Massena.

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