Eleven sailors performing in a play on the Ark Royal. Photographic postcard, 191-.

Date:
[between 1910 and 1919?]
Reference:
2042944i
Part of:
The James Gardiner Collection.
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Eleven sailors performing in a play on the Ark Royal. Photographic postcard, 191-. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 1910 and 1919?]

Physical description

1 photographic postcard : silver gelatin print ; 8.7 x 13.8 cm

Notes

The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Concert party on HMS Ark Royal, a merchant ship converted to an aircraft carrier, which took part in the Gallipoli and Turkish campaigns in World War I and the early 1920s. The central figure appears to be dressed as Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Turkish military hero and (later) ''founder' of modern Turkey"
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Wellcome Collection 2042944i

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  • Military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag

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