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Antique Imperial War Museum Visit Gallipoli Peninsula WWI Programme Maps Photos

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Antique Imperial War Museum Visit Gallipoli Peninsula WWI Programme Maps Photos

£350.00

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Fine antique official Imperial War Museum briefing set dated 1971 produced to accompany an organised visit to the Gallipoli. Arranged as a series of four bound volumes with original printed card covers "Visit to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Maps' - including specially prepared campaign and battlefield maps illustrating the Dardanelles, naval action of 18th March 1915, the landings at Cape Helles and ANZAC, and detailed terrain and trench positions. 'Visit to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Programme and historical Notes.' - outlining the background chronology and strategic context of the Gallipoli campaign. 'Commonwealth War Graves on the Gallipoli Peninsula Commonwealth War Graves Commission August 1971' - detailing cemeteries, memorials and commemorative arrangements, with contextual notes on post-war recovery and maintenance. 'Visit to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Photographs' - 22 mounted original black and white photographic plates reproducing images from the Imperial War Museum collection, many taken in 1919 and the mid 1960s, showing battle sites, memorials, veterans, and surviving features of the campaign. 
From the collection of Major Michael Charles Babington Hawkins (1914-1977), and his wife Virginia nee Heath, he was ADC to Prince Henry Duke of Gloucester.

Size: 30 x 21.5 cm approx

Photos form part of the description 

Place of Publication: London

Non-Fiction Subject: History & Military

Language: English

Publisher: Imperial War Museum

Country of Origin: United Kingdom

Year Printed: 1971

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