italoturkishwar19111912

Probably from October 1911 (perhaps October 5), according to query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A06E4DA1E3EE033A... which mentions the Varese. "SHELLED TRIPOLI TWO DAYS.; Italians Then Landed and Blew Up Forts -- Turkish Shells Fell Short. === Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES. October 9, 1911, Monday LONDON, Oct. 8. -- The cable between Tripoli and Malta having been restored, telegrams are now coming to hand from that quarter. The following message, dated Tripoli, Sunday, 4:25 P. M., sent to The Daily Mail, is the first out of Tripoli for eight days: ... ===

Thanks for the information.

Wow, something about Varese so far away :) Can you post it on 21100, Varese? Thanks.

Krupp is a German armsmaker, known to have sent anti-ship guns to the Dardanelles to Germany's ally Turkey. These guns are designed to sink ships, and they did great damage during the naval incursion attempt of the allied navy on March 18, 1915. As the label says AFTER bombardment, and that it's written in English and that they could get so close to take this photo strongly suggests the photo was taken during the land campaign during which several points in the Dardanelles peninsula were captured by the allies temporarily.

Hi Princewolf: Thanks for investigating the background to this photo. However, I think it depicts the Italo-Turkish War of 1911 rather than the later Gallipoli Campaign of World War I. According to The Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (Tony Jaques, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, p. 941) in 1911 fighting between the Italian and Turko-Arab forces took place in Sidi Mesri, Libya with the Italians eventually taking over the location. See information here at Google Books: books.google.com/books?id=sbMFCZyAcnQC&pg=PA941&l...

technik die "begeistert"

That machine does look like what was called back then: a (mono-wing) flying contraption for aerial observation.