The daily train being pulled by a German engine on the Taurus railway line at Karapunar. Some ...

Accession Number G02143
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

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Description

The daily train being pulled by a German engine on the Taurus railway line 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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