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Pictures from the album showing the rugged Gallipoli terrain.<br />
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Fascinating unseen photos of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign have emerged alongside a battlefield message from a British officer urging his own side to 'stop firing at us'.<br />
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The unknown major hurriedly penned a note to Colonel Galbraith, commanding officer of the 7th Highland Light Infantry, after an incident of friendly fire.<br />
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The note sheds new light on the chaos of the campaign which has gone down in history as one of Britain's biggest military disasters.<br />
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In it, he also pleads for more water, tools and ammunition for his beleaguered men as they fought the Ottomans during the First World War.