Dunsterforce Imperial War Museum photos
by parallels · December 1, 2019
CAUCASUS AND SOUTHERN RUSSIA: CIVIL WAR AND WESTERN INTERVENTION 1918-1920 (Q 24910) The General Officer Commanding Dunsterforce, Major General L C Dunsterville talking to an Armenian soldier. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213357
photograph (Q 24908) Major General Dunsterville G. O. C. Dunsterforce, and Commodore Norris R. N. on the Caspian. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205265099
photograph (Q 24906) Major General Dunsterville G. O. C. Dunsterforce, and Commodore Norris R. N. on the Caspian. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205265098
photograph (Q 24876) Six inch battery in action with a detachment of Dunsterforce gunners. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205265075
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 25091) Building the New Road across the Kerind Valley. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205091233
CAUCASUS AND SOUTHERN RUSSIA: CIVIL WAR AND WESTERN INTERVENTION 1918-1920 (Q 24869) Dunsterforce gunners helping the crew of an Armenian field gun. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205215005
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 24932) One of the first British Army guns to arrive in Baku is manhandled down a gangplank into the port. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213373
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 24912) A line of civilians queuing for their water ration in Baku in 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213372
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 24859) Infantry of the North Staffordshire regiment at Baladajar station following the failed attempt to hold Baku in Persia in 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213366
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 24995) Soldiers of the Staffordshire Regiment with mules and donkeys near Menjil. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213376
DEFENCE OF BAKU (DUNSTERFORCE) (Q 24853) 1/7th Battalion N. Staffordshire Regiment advancing in extended order towards hill seen in the distance which had been evacuated by Armenian troops; the position was recaptured and named Stafford Hill, W. of Binagadi. 26th August 1918. There were 10 Casualties, including the Company Commander, Lt. Craig (See Official History Vol. IV, p.224) Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205071576
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 24873) A six-inch Russian howitzer at the moment of full recoil during action in alliance with the British Army’s Dunsterforce against Turkish forces in 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213368
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 25041) Persian labourers constructing a road through the Asadabad Pass under the supervision of the British Army ‘Dunsterforce’. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213380
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 24918) Repairs being carried out to guns in the arsenal used by the British Army Dunsterforce in Baku. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205091231
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 25016) A parade of men of the Jelu tribe being drilled by soldiers of the British Army ‘Dunsterforce’ at Hamadan. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213377
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 24877) A six-inch Russian howitzer in action at a battery position held by the British Army Dunsterforce against Turkish forces in 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213369
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 24866) Two British Army officers sit in their roughly protected quarters in a position nicknamed ‘Mud Volcano’ while on duty with the Dunsterforce in 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213367
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 25024) A British officer of the ‘Dunsterforce’ leading a drill for Jelu recruits. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213379
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 24947) A cart piled with ragged possessions and five Armenian refugee children during the British Army Dunsterforce’s defence of Baku. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213374
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 24895) A British soldier with the Dunsterforce using binoculars beside an Armenian with a rifle in a trench position in 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213371
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 24990) Vehicles of the British Army ‘Dunsterforce’ on the move near Birkandi. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205091232
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 25089) Persian labourers spread stones during the construction of a road in the Kerind valley under the watch of a member of the British Army ‘Dunsterforce’. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213381
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 25019) Persian conscripts being drilled by a British officer of the ‘Dunsterforce’ near Hamadan. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213378
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 24885) A group of Armenians fighting with the British Army’s Dunsterforce against Turkish forces eating and drinking at a trench position in 1918. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213370
THE DUNSTERFORCE, 1917 – 1919 (Q 24960) A British officer from the Dunsterforce watches a Russian instructing a group of Persian police at Resht. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205213375
