2-710-900 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'General Aylmer Hunter-Weston', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'With Staff officers in the communication-trench approach to the Staff headquarters in the Gallipoli peninsula.' Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston (1864-1940) was a British Army general who served at Gallipoli and in the very early stages of the Somme Offensive. The Gallipoli peninsula in western Turkey saw heavy fighting, with many casualties on both sides. From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. IV, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]