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Description: | Ms transcription (2pp) of a letter written in 1915 to his wife by Captain Musta Mohomet, a Turkish officer of the 13th Turkish Infantry, found on his dead body at Achi Baba, Gallipoli, and translated by Corporal W K S Haywood of the 2/1st Battalion London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), containing references to the low morale of the Turkish soldiers caused by the intense shelling and lack of adequate food, and fearing that the 'persistent English' will win the Gallipoli campaign and occupy Constantinople.
Cataloguer APR
Catalogue date 2004-04-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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