Signed by artist, inscribed and dated 'Suvla Bay, Sept 1915'. This is a view of HMS 'Jonquil' temporarily flying the flag (at the fore) of Rear-Admiral A.H. Christian who commanded the naval side of the Gallipoli landings at Suvla Bay in August 1915. Wilkinson was present at Gallipoli as an Assistant Paymaster RNVR and, as he recalled in his memoir, 'A Brush with Life' (1969), p. 65, was told by Christian: ‘I had no idea you were an artist. I shan’t have much for you to do so you had better spend some of your time making sketches of operations.’ This he did from 'Jonquil' in which Christian briefly had his flag in August and September (though his flagship was normally 'Swiftsure'). By late November 1915 these formed an exhibition at the Fine Art Society in London, with an accompanying and very handsome book called 'The Dardanelles, Colour Sketches from Gallipoli', including a substantial introduction by the artist, published by Longmans (and reprinted in 1916). Eight of the 30 colour plates it contained were also reproduced, promoting the exhibition, by the 'Illustrated London News' on 27 November 1915. This was the magazine for which Wilkinson had worked as an illustrator both before and into the early part of the war, and to which he would later return. 'Jonquil' (1915) was one of 72 almost identical Flower-class fleet sweeping sloops. The other two ships shown to the left of the steam launch at centre are armed boarding steamers, of which the Navy had 40 during the war: that on the extreme left may be 'Snaefell' (1910). They appear to be landing troops from boats and there is fighting apparent on the coast beyond.