2-717-228 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Lost Battalion in the Suvla Bay Operations', First World War, c1915, (c1920). 'Officers of the 1/5 (Territorial) Norfolk Regiment, sixteen of whom, with Colonel Sir Horace G. Beauchamp, charged with their men and were lost in the forest'. The Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey was the scene of heavy fighting between the allied forces of the British Empire including Australia, and New Zealand, and the Turkish Ottoman Empire. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume IV, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]