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Various annotations
image: an annotated view of five Royal Navy ships just off the coast of the Gallipoli peninsular, including the Royal Navy cruiser
HMS Bacchante, which is in the centre of the composition. The ships are bombarding the Turkish positions in an attempt to identify gun positions, defences and occupied trenches. Smoke rises from part of the coastline towards the middle of the composition from where it is under artillery bombardment.
Below the drawing Hillier describes the context in handwritten text: 'We are spotting gunfire for Bacchante (4 funnel
cruiser), trying to "draw fire" from the Turkish concealed batteries. Our fire is returned by some enemy batteries, but only to a very
small extent of those really there - as is proved later on. In some places we can see newly made lines of Turkish trenches, which are as easily discernible that our experts label them "duds" - cut to draw gunfire away from the real trenches and emplacements. So no shells are being wasted on those'.
Optimised | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Landscape seascape Gallipoli 1915-1916 Royal Naval Air Service shipping BACCHANTE (HMS) Royal Navy 1914-1918 Dardanelles Ottoman Empire Action Gallipoli 1915 Royal Navy MANICA (HMS) First World War Artillery | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hillier, Herbert | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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