Artillery_crazy
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This series that I call the Dunsterforce, was only possible due to Obee´s habilities to transform ideas into actual sets.....:salute:::salute::
We started the project a year ago and it was an off spring of a WW1 Desert/Northwestern Column project I had some 2 years ago and ever since have built on it...
Hope you enjoy and as you can see these are all one off sets, no serial purchases from the standard manufacturers.....Although they could get an idea or two from this series and come up with a series or their own....
Cheers
Luiz
The Dunsterforce:
Established in December 1917, Dunsterforce was an Allied military force named after its commander, General Lionel Dunsterville. The force had fewer than 350 Australian, New Zealand, British and Canadian officers and NCOs, who were drawn from the Western and Mesopotamian fronts. The force was intended to organise local units in northern Iran (Persia) and southern Caucasus, to replace the Tsarist armies that had fought the Ottoman armies in Armenia. The Russians had also occupied northern Iran in co-operation with the British occupation of south Iran, to create a cordon to prevent German and Ottoman agents from reaching central Asia, Afghanistan and India.
In July 1918, Captain Stanley Savige, five officers and fifteen NCOs of Dunsterforce, set out towards Urmia and were caught up in an exodus of Assyrians, after the town had been captured by the Ottoman army.
Dunsterville and the force, with reinforcements from the 39th Infantry Brigade, drove in 500 Ford vans and armoured cars about 220 miles (350 km) from Hamadan across Qajar Iran to Baku.
We started the project a year ago and it was an off spring of a WW1 Desert/Northwestern Column project I had some 2 years ago and ever since have built on it...
Hope you enjoy and as you can see these are all one off sets, no serial purchases from the standard manufacturers.....Although they could get an idea or two from this series and come up with a series or their own....
Cheers
Luiz
The Dunsterforce:
Established in December 1917, Dunsterforce was an Allied military force named after its commander, General Lionel Dunsterville. The force had fewer than 350 Australian, New Zealand, British and Canadian officers and NCOs, who were drawn from the Western and Mesopotamian fronts. The force was intended to organise local units in northern Iran (Persia) and southern Caucasus, to replace the Tsarist armies that had fought the Ottoman armies in Armenia. The Russians had also occupied northern Iran in co-operation with the British occupation of south Iran, to create a cordon to prevent German and Ottoman agents from reaching central Asia, Afghanistan and India.
In July 1918, Captain Stanley Savige, five officers and fifteen NCOs of Dunsterforce, set out towards Urmia and were caught up in an exodus of Assyrians, after the town had been captured by the Ottoman army.
Dunsterville and the force, with reinforcements from the 39th Infantry Brigade, drove in 500 Ford vans and armoured cars about 220 miles (350 km) from Hamadan across Qajar Iran to Baku.
