Glimpse of the mountains from the entrance to a Taurus Mountain railway tunnel. Australian ...

Accession Number G02145
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

Glimpse of the mountains from the entrance to a Taurus Mountain railway tunnel. Australian prisoners of war were employed for some time on the construction of the Taurus Mountain railway. 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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