Turkish machine-gun crews, from 'Four Years Beneath the Crescent' by Rafael De Nogales, Inspector-General of the Turkish Forces in Armenia and Military Governor of Egyptian Sinai during the World War.
Turkish machine-gunners in action
"03.35 hrs. Battalion commander arrives. 'Hurry! Prepare a reconnaissance patrol. The enemy has withdrawn from Anafarta and the entire right flank.' Offer him tea. The patrol is readied. Explain it will move into no-man's-land from the spot where the mine was detonated."
Last entry from the diary of Turkish Second Lieutenant Mehmed Fasih writing on December 19, 1915 on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Over the course of several days, the British troops had been evacuating their positions at Suvla Bay and Anzac Cove, and had managed to do so without raising suspicions of the Turks. It was the most successful part of their invasion of Gallipoli. Anafarta was the Turkish name for the area of Suvla Bay, the Allied left flank and the Turkish right.
Intimate Voices from the First World War by Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis, page 143, copyright © 2003 by Svetlana Palmer and Sarah Wallis, publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, publication date: 2003
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