Malta Gallery

Malta - Lacemaking

Lacemaking in Malta during WWI. Malta was not on the front line of World War I (unlike World War II) but did participate in many ways nevertheless. Malta was known as the Nurse of the Mediterranean due to its role of caring for wounded soldiers (British, Australian and other Allied) from Turkey & Greece. To begin with it was a rest and rehabilitation station but quickly progressed into caring and treating the worst wounds soldiers and sailors were receiving especially after the horrific disaster of the Gallipoli landings during the Dardanelles Campaign. Date: circa 1917

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Panoramic map of Mediterranean by G. H. Davis

A new centre of world alarm during the Second World War: a panoramic map of the Mediterranean, showing the principal bases. The framework of strategy in the Mediterranean: Gibraltar, Toulon, Naples, Malta and Alexandria -- names that have figured in so many wars in the past -- are again being discussed all over the world. This map also shows new key points, such as Rhodes, Izmit and Haifa.
1940

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

Pirates/Dragut-Reis

Ottoman pirate, successor to Khayr-ad-Din, fatally wounded in an unsuccessful attack on Malta by the Turks and their African allies, of whom he was one

© Mary Evans Picture Library

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