"1919 ANZAC photos" Topic
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Nine pound round | 18 Feb 2021 5:51 a.m. PST |
When Charles Bean and the historical mission returned to Gallipoli in 1919, they photographed the terrain at ANZAC extensively. Some of these photos are included in Robert Rhodes James' book, but only a few; does anyone know of a source for the remainder? Have they ever been digitized and posted online? Asking because I am giving some thought to making a model of part of that area for 6mm gaming. I have found a great many maps, but photos would also help. |
ataulfo | 18 Feb 2021 7:09 a.m. PST |
It's not the same thing. I have a book that might interest you, called "Silent landscape at Gallipoli: the battlefields of the Dardanelles – one hundred years on" written by Simon Doughty, photos by James Kerr |
monk2002uk | 18 Feb 2021 10:47 a.m. PST |
There are a huge number of photos in The Australian War Museum collection online. Here are some examples of the terrain for 6mm gaming Anzac Cove, Sari Bair, and Cape Helles:
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Nine pound round | 19 Feb 2021 8:17 a.m. PST |
Thanks- I followed your posts on this with great interest. I am thinking about doing something slightly different- using thin sheet styrofoam to build up a contoured model of the terrain. For the higher elevations in particular, I am kicking around the idea of making two separate sets of contours, one mostly pristine, another with the trench lines as they existed on August 6, held to the lower contours with pins so I could swap them out. I have made trench terrain in this way in the past (I used a Dremel tool to route out the trenches), and I liked the results, although I will almost certainly have to expect some simplification for the more complex segments of Anzac. I have found the AWM site, but it's unfortunately somewhat difficult to search. The best way I have found is to do keyword searches on Google, which is unfortunate, as I would expect (based on the images in James' book) the image documentation to have been extensive. It does appear some of these images might have been included in CEW Bean's "Gallipoli Mission" or Jana Gooding's "Gallipoli Revisited," but I have not seen either of them. |
Nine pound round | 19 Feb 2021 10:21 a.m. PST |
As a follow up, I looked up CEW Bean's book online, and was delighted to find that the AWM published the entire thing, chapter by chapter, as a PDF. I read the chapter on "German Officer's Trench," and it appears to be exactly what I was looking for: a section-by-section discussion of the Anzac bridgehead, with a fairly substantial number of accompanying photographs of the ground as it appeared in 1919. I could just barely make out the pictures, as the scan quality was poor, but I recognized one from the James book, and was able to find a seller for it online at a very reasonable price. I had known Zeki was Bean's guide when he revisited Gallipoli in 1919, but it was interesting to read the discussion between the two on the holding of German Officer's, and fascinating to get Zeki's explanation for the way the Turks were thinking: they had a clear sense for the importance of fires and particularly the significance of the topography at German Officer's Trench. |
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