P12205 Accession Number: P12205

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Album of 110 pages containing 171 images taken on Gallipoli, at sea off Turkey and Egypt. Compiled by Lieutenant Henry Graham Forbes, RNVR, an Australian who had been a 4th Officer on a P&O ship which became a hospital ship HMHS Delta. Subjects include Cape Helles, Sedd el Bahr, trenches, prisoners of war, wounded Australians being evacuated from barges onto HMHS Delta ships and portraits of crew, medical staff and nurses of HMHS Delta, Canadian nurses on the way to Lemnos.

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Accession Number
P12205
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Album
Date Made
27 March 1915 - 16 November 1915
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor J J Forbes
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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