Topçu Yuzbaşi Mustafa Ertuğrul (D. 1893 Girit - Ö. 1968 Antalya) |
Artillery Captain Mustafa Ertuğrul (born 1893 at Girit - died 1968 at Antalya) |
Mustafa Ertuğrul was an officer of the Ottoman Army during World War I and of the Turkish Army in the early stages of the Turkish War of Independence (he was wounded near Aydin in 1919), who had accomplished a number of brilliant military feats, the most notable being the sinking of the British seaplane tender HMS Ben-my-Chree with shore artillery fire. During the same campaign along the coasts of southwestern Turkey, he also sank the French auxiliary aviso Paris II, the converted naval trawler Alexandra and a number of other Allied vessels during 1917. |
More information on Wikipedia. Information about S. S. Ben-my-Chree see here. Source of picture of Captain Mustafa Ertugrul: see Turizm Dosyasi |
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