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1. Windmill: Portianos, Mudros.
19/11/1915
Sketch includes legend: "Portianos [i.e. Portianou], Lemnos. 19/11/15". On reverse: "Mudros: advanced base for Gallipoli. Two of a line of four mills, each facing a different way for use according to ...
2. Windmill interior.
c. 1915-1916
Sketch includes legend: "Wind mill interior, Portianos [i.e. Portianou]". On reverse: "2. Mudros. Interior of same windmill."
3. Greek church: Portianos.
c. 1915-1916
Sketch includes legend: "Greek church: Portianos [i.e. Portianou]". On reverse: "3. Greek church at Mudros. The priest lived within and was always at prayer. Human bones littered the graveyard."
4. Lemnos.
30/11/1915
Sketch includes legend: "Lemnos 30 Nov 1915". On reverse: "4. Mudros harbour: Lemnos. In the distance, "Aquitania", in service as a hospital ship. 10,000 dysentry and typhoid cases were being evacuate...
5. 2nd line trench: Sulva Bay.
c. 1915-1916
Sketch includes legend: "2nd line Sulva". On reverse: "5. Sulva Bay: second line. Dug in solid rock with crowbars and dynamite and camouflaged with brushwood. Here we spent some 'rest' days destroying...
6. Sunrise: Sari Bair, Chocolate Hill and Salt Lake, Suvla Bay.
10/12/1915
Painting includes legend: "Sari Bar, Chocolate Hill and Salt Lake, 10/12/15". On reverse: "6. Sulva: Coy. H.Q. in reserve. Painted with a small box of paints found on the body of a private of The Arti...
7. Eski Line and Achi Baba: Helles.
c. 1915-1916
Sketch includes legend: "Eski Line, Helles & Achi Baba". On reverse: "7. Helles: Eski, (Turkish, 2nd) line). Showing Achi Baba, the fortified hill which was the chief obstacle to the success of the Ca...
[Untitled].
28/12/1915
Painting includes legend: "No.8 R.C.P. Sed-Ul-Bair, The Dardanelles, 28-12-15". On reverse: "8. The Dardenelles: The Narrows. From a sap on the Helles sector. The far hills of Asia Minor hid "Asiatic ...
9. Helles: The evacuation (destruction of stores and ammunition).
13-14/01/1916
On reverse: "9. The evacuation from Helles on the night of Jan. 13th.-14th, 1916. Store tents fired and ammunition dumps exploded electrically at a gun signal from "Queen Elizabeth" at 2 a.m. The most...
11a. Valetta harbour.
06/11/1915
Painting includes legend: "Valetta, S.S. Northland. 6-11-15". On reverse: "Valetta harbour: Malta. From S.S. "Northland?", a captured enemy boat renamed. She was torpedoed next trip out."