Turkish trenches on Sniper's Ridge near where the Turkish were attacked by the 9th Battalion. ...

Accession Number G02095
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 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

Turkish trenches on Sniper's Ridge near where the Turkish were attacked by the 9th Battalion. The Turks have reinforced the unstable ground with a mud brick retaining wall. Gaba Tepe is seen in the left background. 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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