Accession Number | G02143 |
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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 This item is in the Public Domain |
The daily train being pulled by a German engine on the Taurus railway line at Karapunar. Some ...
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.