more than 150,000 armenian children were left parentless by the end of 1918 .
armenian deportees travel on foot in 1915 as taken by armin wegner , including women and children on an unpaved road in the desert sun .
image was titled ` abandoned and murdered small children of the -lrb- armenian -rrb- deportees ' by wegner and was taken in 1915-1916 .
wegner , a volunteer military nurse , set up clandestine mail routes with foreign consulates and embassies to get many hundreds of notes .