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The Gallipoli Campaign – Pictorial of Naval Ops

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History - WW1, WWI operations
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Gallipoli
RAN Ships
None noted.
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March 1998 edition of the Naval Historical Review (all rights reserved)

These four pictures capture different aspects of the naval side of the operation.

 

The iron kettle is not what we would call a handy little thing to take on a picnic. The mids would have been very thirsty by the time they reached the top of the hill and got the `billy boiling’.
The iron kettle is not what we would call a handy little thing to take on a picnic. The mids would have been very thirsty by the time they reached the top of the hill and got the `billy boiling’.

 

A destroyer carrying troops on their way to the front. Note the hammocks lashed round the bridge of the destroyer as protection from shell splinters.
A destroyer carrying troops on their way to the front. Note the hammocks lashed round the bridge of the destroyer as protection from shell splinters.

 

Sailors going ashore is not a very subtle public relations shot.
Sailors going ashore is not a very subtle public relations shot.

 

Is the survivor from “TRIUMPH” modelling a 1914 sailors flannel – North Sea issue? I don’t think anyone would argue with that jaunty (N.P.).
Is the survivor from “TRIUMPH” modelling a 1914 sailors flannel – North Sea issue? I don’t think anyone would argue with that jaunty (N.P.).

 

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