Ready Ready aye
One more sailor post. I couldn’t resist this one. This is a postcard that I bought on Ebay some months ago. I originally purchased it for two reasons.
First, because the H.M.S. Theseus—click on the photo for a closer view of the sailor’s hat—was a British cruiser that took part in the Battle of Gallipoli during the First World War, in which a combined Allied assault was mounted in 1915 in order to capture the Dardanelles and utlimately the Ottoman capital of Constantinople itself. The attempt failed, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers on both sides were killed or wounded in some of the First World War’s worst and bloodiest fighting. Had the campaign succeeded, the war might have ended much earlier, and the subsequent history of the Near East (and possibly Russia) would doubtless have been very different.
The other (more important) reason why I purchased the postcard is that Mark, the young sailor pictured, is quite stunning. Wouldn’t you agree?
First, because the H.M.S. Theseus—click on the photo for a closer view of the sailor’s hat—was a British cruiser that took part in the Battle of Gallipoli during the First World War, in which a combined Allied assault was mounted in 1915 in order to capture the Dardanelles and utlimately the Ottoman capital of Constantinople itself. The attempt failed, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers on both sides were killed or wounded in some of the First World War’s worst and bloodiest fighting. Had the campaign succeeded, the war might have ended much earlier, and the subsequent history of the Near East (and possibly Russia) would doubtless have been very different.
The other (more important) reason why I purchased the postcard is that Mark, the young sailor pictured, is quite stunning. Wouldn’t you agree?
posted by Sandouri Dean Bey at 12:18 PM
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