alone accounted for nearly 16,000 admissions on account of frostbite and exposure, 12,000 of whom were from the Suvla front, 2,700 from Anzac, and 1,200 from Helles; in addition 280 were drowned or died of exposure.”

Image: “Frost-bitten soldiers lying on straw in shelters constructed of biscuit boxes at a store dump at Suvla, on the Aegean coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire after the frost at the end of November 1915.” IWM Q 13644.

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