The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A 4.7 inch gun, destroyed and abandoned by Australians during the evacuation of Gallipoli in December 1915. When revisiting the area after the armistice, some Australians found the gun had been moved and then dumped alongside a road. The barrell is now on display at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra having been recovered from Gallipoli by Captain CEW Bean's Historical Mission in 1919. (Copied from a book of photographs taken by the Turks after the evacuation of Gallipoli, and published in Germany; brought from Asia Minor by an Australian prisoner of war.)
Damaged barrel of 4.7 inch quick firing naval gun. A third of the barrel at the muzzle-end has ruptured. The breech block is missing. 'The text, Q.F. 4.7In IV E.O.C. [broad arrow symbol] 1896 No.716'
THE FIRST 4.7 GUN AT ANZAC BEING LANDED, AT WATSONS PIER, 1915-07-11. THE LANDING WAS DIRECTED BY COLONEL HOBBS. DIVISION ARTILLERY. (DONATED BY MR. A.W. ROSS.)
ANZAC AREA. 1915. DAMAGED 4.7" GUN. POSSIBLY NAVAL OR COASTAL ARTILLERY. THIS IS PROBABLY THE SAME GUN THAT WAS PURPOSELY DESTROYED IN DECEMBER 1915, THE BARRELL OF WHICH WAS RECOVERED IN 1919. THIS
A 4.7 inch gun destroyed and abandoned by the Australians during the evacuation of Gallipoli in December 1915. When revisiting the area after the armistice some Australians found the gun had been move
A Turkish soldier standing beside a field gun and ammunition abandoned by the British during the evacuation of Gallipoli in December 1915. (Copied from a book of photographs taken by the Turks after t
Guns and ammunition limbers, abandoned during the evacuation of Gallipoli, collected at Ari Burnu by the Turks. (Copied from a book of photographs taken by the Turks after the evacuation of Gallipoli,
Field guns abandoned by the British during the evacuation of Gallipoli in December 1915, parked near the beach at Ari Burnu. Note that the gun in the foreground is the only one visible, and its breech
British field gun wagons, only one of which still has a gun attached, abandoned during the evacuation of Gallipoli in December 1915. Most of the weapons and equipment left behind by the allies was dis
Some of the allied ammunition wagons abandoned during the evacuation of Gallipoli, December 1915, parked by the Turks at Ari Burnu. (Copied from a book of photographs taken by the Turks after the evac
