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Pic:  C&T/BNPS<br />
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A Blue jacket inside the muzzle of a 15 inch gun on HMS Queen Elizabeth.  <br />
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Extraordinary photos of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign have come to light over 100 years later - to show a lighter side to the horrors.<br />
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The 11 month campaign against the Ottomans, which ran from February 1915 to January 1916, is regarded as one of the Britain's biggest military disasters.<br />
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A staggering 213,000 troops from the Empire were killed, more than half perishing due to sicknesses such as dysentery caused by the unsanitary environment. <br />
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Yet these images, which have emerged for sale with C & T Auctions, of Ashford, Kent, seem to paint a different, almost jovial snapshot of the campaign.