H19406 Accession Number: H19406

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Group portrait of prisoners of war (POW) in the Submarine Turquoise Mess of the POW camp at Belemedick, Turkey. The French submarine Turquoise was sunk in the Dardanelles off Nagara Point on 30 October 1915 and her crew held as POWs. Written on the wall behind them is “14 Juillet 1918” (14 July, French Independence Day). Identified in the back row from left to right: Pastor (Foreign Legion); unknown; Mouchet (Turquoise); Gondart (Foreign Legion); unknown; Merette; Adolph Jeannin; unknown; and Larrouy (Turquoise).
Front row from left to right: 888 Private George Ernest Kitchin Kerr, 14th Battalion AIF (captured at Gallipoli in August 1915 and repatriated to England in December 1918); Louis Pelegrim (Turquoise); unknown; unknown; Bardin (Turquoise); Jules Azema (Turquoise); unknown; and unknown.

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Accession Number
H19406
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Print
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
1918
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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