A souvenir cloth map of the Dardanelles, and western Turkey, probably made in England between 1915 and 1919. It was brought back to Australia by Sergeant Major John Street, who served on Gallipoli with the Australian artillery and later on the Western Front in France and Belgium. Street returned to Australia in early 1918.
The map is a representation of the Dardanelles and depicts a number of different features of the campaign including the strong presence of the Royal Navy in the area. From the point of view of highlighting the deeds of the submariners during the Gallipoli campaign notice the image of a submarine at the bottom of the map above the words ‘To Constantinople’. The whole tenor of the wording on the map represents wishful thinking on the part of the maker. The Allies, although they were supposed to be getting on ‘To Constantinople’, never got near that city. In some ways all of this suggests that the map was made in the early days of the campaign, perhaps shortly after the initial landings, well before it was clear the Allies were not going ‘To Constantinople’! [AWM REL16599]