Remembering Gallipoli
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Picture

‘During Istanbul’s occupation by the Allied Powers, my dad escaped from Istanbul to Ankara
by train dressed as a sheep merchant to join Ataturk’s forces for the liberation of Turkey.’


Descendant: Ozcan Alpat
Age: 85
Profession: –
Nationality: Turkish

Ancestor: Huseyin Servi (c.1892 – unknown)
Relationship to subject: Father
Profession: Cartographer
Army: Ottoman Army
Post in Gallipoli: Fifth Army