Images of Gallipoli 90 Years After The Battle
Images of Gallipoli 90 Years After The Battle
Images by Selwyn Manning – Scoop Co-Editor.
Photo-Essay: Scoop's Selwyn Manning is in Gallipoli attending the 90th commemorations of the World War I battlefield where over two thousand New Zealanders were killed.
Poppies growing wild on Chunuk Bair (the Narrows can be seen in the distance).
New Zealand Defence personnel
at parade practice at Chunuk Bair.
Turkish Soldier at Chunuk
Bair.
ANZAC Cove, Gallipoli.
War graves atop ANZAC
Cove.
Memorial to Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk (1881-1938) the founder of the Turkish Republic and
its
first President. He masterminded the Turkish defence
of his homeland in 1915.
The Sphinx on the cliffs above
ANZAC Cove.
Remains of the jetty at ANZAC
Cove.
ANZAC Cove: AN Old bully-beef
can lies in the bank of a dug-out, presumed left by an ANZAC
soldier in 1915.
Trenches at Chunuk Bair.
Frigate off the coast near
canakkale, Turkey.
Turkish youths traveling to
Gallipoli.
Canakkale,
Turkey.
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