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‘My grandfather told my father how they did not have enough water to drink during
the war and how in desperation they had to drink the fluid from dead horses stomachs.’


Descendant: Muruvet Kayabay
Age: 48
Profession: Painter
Nationality: Turkish

Ancestor: Ahmet Hilmi Kayabay aka Tatar Ahmet (1890–1955)
Relationship to subject: Grandfather
Profession: Coachman
Army: Ottoman Army
Post in Gallipoli: Fifth Army