Rolling stock of Taurus railway and construction companies taken over by the British at ...

Accession Number G02141
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Place made Ottoman Empire: Turkey
Date made March 1919
Conflict Period 1910-1919
First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Rolling stock of Taurus railway and construction companies taken over by the British at Karapunar. Some Australian prisoners of the Turks helped build and maintain parts of this railway between 1915 and 1918. One of a series of photographs taken on the Gallipoli Peninsula and other areas of Turkey 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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