Hell Spit graveyard showing graves 'faked' (remade) by the Turks. This was done across many of ...

Accession Number G02085
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Place made Ottoman Empire: Turkey, Marmara, Chanak, Gallipoli Peninsula
Date made February 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Hell Spit graveyard showing graves 'faked' (remade) by the Turks. This was done across many of the Gallipoli cemeteries in anticipation of the diplomatic visit by an envoy of the Pope in 1916. One of a series of photographs taken on the Gallipoli Peninsula under the direction of Captain C E W Bean of the Australian Historical Mission, during the months of February and March, 1919.

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