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Vintage Photographs
- Battlegrounds
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006
This section of the website
contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war.
Specifically this sub-section contains battleground photography.
Click here to read
introductory notes relating to this section, including information on
photograph sources. Use the sidebar to the right to select
other categories of photos available within this section.
The photos reproduced below
are in thumbnail format - simply click a given photograph to view a larger
copy within a separate window.
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Filtered
water stored in cans and petrol tins for troops in Gallipoli
(GWS) |
Allied
troops filling sandbags in Gallipoli
(GWS) |
The
defence of Van
(GWS) |
The
defence of Van
(GWS) |
British
troops returning from trenches in Gallipoli
(GWS) |
'L'
Beach at Gallipoli
(GWS) |
Blindfolded
Turkish soldier among Allied lines with a flag of truce
(GWS) |
French
staff officers in a rock shelter in Gallipoli
(GWS) |
Activity
in Mudros Bay, Lemnos, with French troops in the foreground
(GWS) |
Achi
Baba, Gallipoli, seen from a point near the French lines
(GWS) |
Anzac
and Indian troops in Gallipoli
(GWS) |
Pile-driving
on one of the beach on the Gallipoli peninsula
(GWS) |
Allied
commandant's office of the advanced base at Suvla Bay
(GWS) |
Two
Turkish shells fired from Dardanelles Strait over Allied positions
(GWS) |
Turkish
shells bursting among New Zealand troops in Gallipoli
(GWS) |
Train
of donkeys laden with water supplies on a Gallipoli beach
(GWS) |
Battery
of artillery on the Gallipoli shore
(GWS) |
'W'
Beach at Gallipoli
(GWS) |
French
officers within the fort at Seddul Bahr
(GWS) |
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"Bellied" was a term used
to describe when a tank's underside was caught upon an obstacle such
that its tracks were unable to grip the earth. |
Original Material
©
Michael Duffy 2000-07,
SafeSurf Rated
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