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Description: | One folder containing 82 photographs either taken by the donor's father Dr A H T Andrew or Major F Ward who both served with 88th Field Ambulance during the Gallipoli Campaign. The photographs include the landing of 88th Field Ambulance at W Beach on 27 April 1915; 88th Field Ambulance at Gully Beach, in Gully Ravine and Advanced Dressing Station west of the Krithia Road; landing of mules at W Beach; infantry from 29th Division, including 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, coming out of the line; the breakwater at Cape Helles in July 1915; 4th Gurka Rifles in Gully Ravine; transport at Lancashire Landing on 27 April 1915; Royal Munster Fusiliers at Geoghan's Bluff; British troops landing at Gully Beach from HMS INVINVCIBLE; British dead on V Beach and W Beach; RAMC orderlies tending a French colonial soldier; 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment in the trenches (including machine gun post); men of 5th Battalion, Royal Scots resting on Gully Beach; a Royal Field Artillery observation post; anti-sniper screen at Gully Ravine; Indian transport drivers; Turkish prisoners and dead; pack mules including ones injured and killed by Turkish shelling; soldiers watching HMS MAJESTIC off Cape Helles following her being torpedoed and general scenes on Imbros.
Red cloth-covered, 4-flap card folder containing 65 card mounts onto which are glued 82 black and white photographic prints. Many of the card mounts bear captions handwritten in either ink or pencil. On the interior of the folder is written: 'A H T Andrew, Leiston, Suffolk'. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Dardanelles Ottoman Empire Gallipoli 1915 88th Field Ambulance British Army 1914-1918 Transport British Army Gallipoli 1915-1916 Royal Army Medical Corps Animals at War First World War Medical Services | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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