Collection: Gallipoli Examined: Hamilton, I hamilton-7-12-00297a-63274

Description

Photograph of a RN officer showing an anti-submarine dart to Russian Army Col Alexieff, head of visiting party of Russian Army officers (photograph stopped by censor). The caption on the reverse reads "The visit of a Russian Commission to the Dardanelles. The officers constituting the Commission wore the uniform of the British privates, with the exception of the Russian badge in their caps. In the photograph a British Naval Officer is seen showing to Colonel Alexieff, the Chief of the Russian Commission, a submarine dart." No 3133. From a collection of official photographs of the Dardanelles Expedition, 1915.