Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0123Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a field command center, there is a large collection of supplies in the foreground, a large number of men are marching in the midground, there is a large collection of tents are seen in the background. Above the image "W49 (Star)" is printed, below the image "V18813 West Beach, Gallipoli, Scene of British Landing and of Terrible Battles." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood, Inc. Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
V18813
WEST BEACH, GALLIPOLI, SCEN OF BRITISH LANDING
A more desperate undertaking than the attempt to land troops on the spot before us could hardly be imagined. The heights were held by masses of Turkish troops armed with the latest implements of modern warfare and intrenched behind defenses which were designed by German engineers. A wall of uncut barbed wire many yeards in depth held up the advancing toops once they gained the summit of the cliffs. Snipers and machine guns occupied every hollow. The place was a perfect death trap. Yet the splended ardor of the Australian and New Zealand troops who rushed to the assault could no be dampened. Men fell by dozens and by scores; whole companies were swept away. Yet the survivors rushed ever forward, clawed their way up the sides of these hills, fell upon the Turks with bomb, butt and bayonet, drove them out of their trenches and dug themselves solidly in by evening. The attack was launched at dawn on the 25th of April, 1915, and the boats had no sooner left the transports than shells began to burst aomng them.
Months of desperate fighting followed, the Turks, although superior in point of numbers and with every advantage of position, being slowly driven backward, bitterly contesting every yard of the way. Stores and supplies of all kinds were landed as soon as the hills in the backgound were cleared of the enemy. Tents were erected, temporary spurs of track laid and every provision made for a long struggle. The beach before us looks peaceful enough under the hot soutehrn sun, but we see it after the enemy had been driven far inland.Collection
Photograph Collection