This watercolour, The evacuation of Suvla Bay, painted by British artist Geoffrey Stephen Allfree in 1915, depicts a huge explosion and fire seen across water, with the last ship sailing away.
Allfree served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during the First World War. He died at sea on 29 September 1918, aged 29.
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The Gallipoli campaign
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