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Description: | Apr. 23. 15. St George.
image: A view of Mudros Bay in Lemnos. An assortment of ships, including a line of numerous lighters tied together, are
moored in the bay with the coastline in the background. There is a sketch of a specific boat in the top right corner of the
composition.
Below the drawing Hillier describes the context in handwritten text: 'Preparations completed, weather favourable and
the command issued. The next time that string of lighters is used it will not be for practice but the "real thing", in deadly earnest. We
are now leaving immediately for the Front - the details and "Zero" for all these movements being kept very secret until the last moment
(for good reason, see Extract from Dispatch, in margin). The main body of the Landing Force followed, going via Tendors, the A. & N.Z.
Corps remaining here until the 24th'.
Optimised | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Landscape seascape Gallipoli 1915-1916 Royal Naval Air Service shipping Royal Navy 1914-1918 ANZAC Dardanelles Ottoman Empire Gallipoli 1915 Royal 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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