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Eleven sailors performing in a play on the Ark Royal. Photographic postcard, 191-.

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A man dressed as an Ottoman soldier marshals the group, five of the men are in drag. A concert party on HMS Ark Royal, a merchant ship converted to an aircraft carrier, which took part in the Gallipoli and Turkish campaigns in World War I and the early 1920s. The central figure appears to be dressed as Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Turkish military hero and (later) ''father of modern Turkey" (Atatürk).

Part of James Gardiner Collection: photographs of military, naval, and prisoner-of-war camp drag.

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Identifier
s1784m01c
Collection
James Gardiner 20th Century Drag Postcards
Institution
Wellcome Library
Date Issued
1910 to 1919?
Genre
Photographs
Prints
Topic(s)
Female impersonators
Resource Type
Still Image
Analog Format
1 photograph : photoprint ;
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