Sedd el Bahr
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Sedd el Bahr is a village in the Eceabat District, Çanakkale Province, Turkey. It is located at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. The village lies east of the cape, on the shore of the
V Beach at Gallipoli
Sedd el Bahr castle and village seen from the SS River Clyde during the landing at Cape Helles, 25 April 1915.
A captured Krupp 28 m L/22 at Sedd el Bahre
Şehitlik panoramio
SS River Clyde
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SS River Clyde was a 3,913 GRT British collier built by Russell & Co of Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde and completed in March 1905. In the First World War the Admiralty requisitioned her for the R
Sedd el Bahr
…lies east of the cape, on the shore of the Dardanelles. It was the site of V Beach, the landing zone for two Irish battalions, including one from the SS River Clyde, on 25 April 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I. Its population is 277 (2021). At the tip of the Sedd el Bahr promontory is the castle…
River Clyde at V Beach on the Gallipoli peninsula, showing disembarkation ports cut in her starboard side.
Soldiers of the Australian 2nd Infantry Brigade disembarking at V Beach on 6 May 1915, for the Second Battle of Krithia. River Clyde is beached and serving as a quay. The light coloured patch on her starboard bow is part of her unfinished yellow camouflage.
The Base Camp, Cape Helles, Under Shell Fire. The SS River Clyde is seen aground. By Norman Wilkinson, August 1915.