{"id":90,"date":"2014-04-07T09:33:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T09:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2014\/04\/07\/selected-by-stephen-miller-web-editor-what-the-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-03T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T11:02:18","slug":"selected-by-stephen-miller-web-editor-what-the-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2014\/04\/07\/selected-by-stephen-miller-web-editor-what-the-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-90 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2014\/04\/07\/selected-by-stephen-miller-web-editor-what-the-2\/the-retreat-of-the-allied-forces-from-suvla-bay-turkey-during-the-gallipoli-campaign-in-the-winter-of-1915-1916-ref-hamilton-712243a\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/files\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3nmjaU7nk1t348s2o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-91\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-91'>\n\t\t\t\tThe retreat of the allied forces from Suvla bay, Turkey, during the Gallipoli campaign in the winter of 1915-1916 (ref: Hamilton 7\/12\/243a)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2014\/04\/07\/selected-by-stephen-miller-web-editor-what-the-2\/the-arrival-of-allied-troops-at-galliopoli-1915-taken-from-lalbum-de-la-guerre-paris-1926-i-385\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/files\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3nmjaU7nk1t348s2o2_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-92\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-92'>\n\t\t\t\tThe arrival of Allied troops at Galliopoli, 1915, taken from L&#8217;Album de la Guerre (Paris, 1926), I: 385\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Selected by Stephen Miller, Web Editor<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>What<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The first image is of the retreat of the allied forces from Suvla bay, Turkey, during the Gallipoli campaign in the winter of 1915-1916 (ref. Hamilton 7\/12\/243a).\u00a0 It is from the official photographs of the Dardanelles Expedition, 1915-1916 found in the archival collection of Gen Sir Ian Hamilton (1853-1947). Hamilton served as General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli, 1915.\u00a0 The photographs were supplied by Central News Agency.\u00a0 The second image is from the arrival earlier in the year, taken from <em>L&#8217;Album de la Guerre<\/em> (Paris, 1926), I: 385.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Why\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The first main image looks far from happy.\u00a0 It is winter (another photo caption mentions soldiers suffering frostbite).\u00a0 The transport looks anything but inviting, though at least these men have survived the Gallipoli campaign so far.\u00a0 The clarity of the photograph, as for so many in this collection, reveals that the surface of this barge, with a gun aboard, rides only a short distance above the surface of water.\u00a0 Conditions look wet and far from safe.\u00a0 Perhaps because the purpose is departure, the barge seems overloaded.\u00a0 Are the men onboard to stabilise the gun?\u00a0 The personal exposure of warfare is starkly evident.\u00a0 Some of the mystery of the image is explained by the photo discovered in the <em>L&#8217;Album de la Guerre <\/em>showing the arrival of a gun earlier in the year. \u00a0It is also being towed on a barge with men onboard, but not nearly so heavily loaded. \u00a0A rough translation of the French text: &lsquo;During the landing: a 155[mm] canon towed on a barge.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ref: Hamilton 7\/12<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingscollections.org\/catalogues\/lhcma\/collection\/h\/ha30-001\/\">www.kingscollections.org\/catalogues\/lhcma\/collection\/h\/ha30-001<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Other sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Over 100 more official photos from the Dardanelles are available to view online at the Google Cultural Institute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/collection\/king-s-college-london-archives\">www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/collection\/king-s-college-london-archives<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">More images from <em>L&#8217;Album de la Guerre<\/em> (Paris, 1926) volume I are available via the Serving Solder site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingscollections.org\/servingsoldier\/collection\/lalbum-de-la-guerre-vol-1-part-1\">www.kingscollections.org\/servingsoldier\/collection\/lalbum-de-la-guerre-vol-1-part-1<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selected by Stephen Miller, Web Editor What The first image is of the retreat of the allied forces from Suvla bay, Turkey, during the Gallipoli campaign in the winter of 1915-1916 (ref. Hamilton 7\/12\/243a).\u00a0 It is from the official photographs of the Dardanelles Expedition, 1915-1916 found in the archival collection of Gen Sir Ian Hamilton &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/2014\/04\/07\/selected-by-stephen-miller-web-editor-what-the-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,247],"tags":[7,51,52,21,53,3],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-lhcma","category-military-history","tag-archives","tag-gallipoli","tag-gallipoli-campaign","tag-photographs","tag-retreat","tag-ww1","post_format-post-format-gallery","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/kingscollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}