Hurst War Memorial, St.Nicholas Church, Hurst, Berkshire
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S.S. River Clyde, Gallipoli
S.S. River Clyde, Gallipoli
This picture first appeared in The War Illustrated, 12 June 1915

The caption reads:

The S.S. River Clyde, which, crowded with British troops, was purposely run aground on the beach at Sedd-ul-Bahr, in the Gallipoli Peninsula, in order that the soldiers might land without delay under the fierce Turkish fire.
image: The War Illustrated, 12 June 1915
 

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in morning
We will remember them.
Lawrence Binyon