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Description: | Aerial photographs of Salonika, Mesopotamia, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Persia including: Abu Hanifa Mosque (near Baghdad); Aleppo; Azrak (RAF landing ground); Beirut; Damascus; Deraa (bombing raid); El Afule railway station (bombing raid); El Mina; Er Remteh; Gaza; Haifa; Jaffa; Jerusalem; Jezzin; Kasvin; Kufah (Ali's Tomb); Kutrani railway station (bombing raid); Mafrak railway station (bombing raid); Nablus; Najaf; Nazareth; Nebi Kasim (river crossing); Rayak railway station (bombing raid); Salonika (British General Headquarters, 16 Wing HQ, harbour, eastern and north west parts of city, Orient railway station); Sanamein road (bombing raid); Sultanabad; Taiyebeh (column of Turkish PoWs); Tiberias; Tul Keram including railway station (captured rolling stock); Wadi Useimir; the Ferweh - Balata road (including captured Turkish transport). Also included is an album of photographs of Salonika showing general street scenes, French colonial, Greek, Indian, Italian, Russian soldiers and scenes following the Great Fire of Salonika (18-19 August 1917). There are also loose photographic prints and postcards relating to the Gallipoli Campaign: No.1 Hospital at Moudros; group photographs of British and Australian wounded from Gallipoli in hospital at Gibraltar (14 October 1915); Hospital Ship GASCON; mixed British - ANZAC band in France (25 April 1917); also photographs taken at Gallipoli during a pilgrimage trip made by H W Jarman twenty years after the First World War. Finally, there is a leaflet titled 'From the Salonika Army' issued New Year 1919. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Dardanelles Ottoman Empire Gallipoli 1915 British Army 1914-1918 Salonika Campaign 1915-1918 Casualties Salonika 1915-1918 Balkans Gallipoli 1915-1916 First World War Australian Army 1914-1918 | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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