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Description: | Mudros Bay. Thurs. Apr. 22. '15. H.H. from hill near Australian Camp.
image: A view of a busy Mudros Bay in Lemnos. The bay is crowded with Royal Navy and French shipping including HMS Manica and HMS Reliance. The coastline in the right foreground is covered with bell tents and Australian troops. There are handwritten annotations in pencil throughout the sketch.
Below the drawing Hillier describes the context in handwritten text: 'Some of our Warships. Transports and other craft
at their appointed moorings in the great natural harbour, which cannot be viewed all at once from any point I could get to. All this time the troops have been practising and exercising, on land and in the boats and lighters to be used in the attack, embarking and landing etc. And more ships and Transports have also been coming in, until the harbour is now chock-a-block with them, except for the necessary fairway'.
Optimised | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Landscape seascape Gallipoli 1915-1916 Natural phenomena / time / weather Royal Naval Air Service RELIANCE (HMS) shipping Royal Navy 1914-1918 ANZAC Dardanelles Ottoman Empire Gallipoli 1915 Royal Navy French Navy MANICA (HMS) First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hillier, Herbert | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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