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Turkish Star / Turkish Star, Gallipoli, WWI

Turkish Star for the Gallipoli Compaign. A five pointed zinc star, each ray terminating in a small metal ball and filled in red enamel. In the centre a crescent and within the Sultan’s Toughra or cypher and a character representing El Ghazi (The Victorious). Below in Turkish figures is 333 (1915).

 

newspaper poster / Dublin’s Heroes, 2 Oct 1915

Newspaper poster, copy from The Weekly Irish News, Saturday 2 October 1915, ‘Dublin’s Heroes’ with portrait photographs and details of officers killed in the Gallipoli campaign.

 

newspaper / The Weekly Irish News, 2 Oct 1915

Newspaper, copy from The Weekly Irish News, 2 October 1915, with portrait photographs and details of officers killed in the Gallipoli campaign.

 

postcard photograph / John Loder, 1945

Postcard photograph of John Loder, c. 1945. Loder was born William John Muir Lowe, the son of Brigadier General William Henry Muir Lowe. Loder was his father's Aid de Camp in Dublin during the week of the Easter Rising, 1916, and was present at the surrender. He had previous served with the 15th...