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Map of Gallipoli Invasion 1915

1915 Gallipoli, Anzac Cove. [25th - 19th April December]

Article: Gallipoli Campaign & Battle [1914-1918 Online]
From March 1915 to January 1916, French and British Commonwealth forces fought against the German-advised Ottoman army for control of the Dardanelles.
Article: Warfare 1914-1918 (Australia)
Although popular memory in Australia places a large emphasis on the Gallipoli campaign in the history of the First World War, the Australian military contribution was much more extensive than one nine-month campaign in 1915.
Article: Australia
The impact of the First World War on Australia was so profound that its memory dominates the national political culture even today, in the form of the Anzac “legend.”
Gallipoli Campaign [Wikipedia]
The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defense of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916.
Article: Gallipoli Campaign
Early on the morning of 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in Ottoman Türkiye. This marked the start of the Gallipoli Campaign, a land-based element of a broad strategy to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
Article: What went wrong at Gallipoli in 1915?
When the First World War broke out in July 1914 the general feeling was that it would be over by the end of that year. However, as 1914 turned into 1915 it was clear this wasn’t the case. On the Western Front in particular, the fighting had ground to a stalemate, and the casualties continued to rise.
Timeline: The Campaign that defined a nation
On 25 April 1915 during the First World War, Australian and New Zealand soldiers landed at what is now called Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula. By that evening 2,000 of them had been killed or wounded.
The Gallipoli Campaign Overview [ABC]
The Gallipoli Campaign began as an ambitious naval strategy devised by Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, to force the Ottoman Empire out of the Great War.
ANZAC / Gallipoli
The Gallipoli Campaign was mounted by the British and French largely at the instigation of the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Winston Churchill.

Videos

Gallipoli [Rated PG, Duration: 1:57:32]

Gallipoli is a film by award-winning Turkish director, Tolga Ornek, narrated by Jeremy Irons and Sam Neill. Produced over six years and in seven different countries, Gallipoli uses newly uncovered diaries, letters, dramatic re-enactments and interviews to reveal one of the largest landing operations in history and one of the bloodiest and most controversial battles of the First World War.

SOURCE: Tolga Ornek (2011, 24th April) History Channel on SBS, Clickview, https://clickv.ie/w/ndGv

The landing at Gallipoli and the Gallipoli campaign [Rated G, Duration: 4:50)

Understand more about how the Anzac legacy was formed as part of the fighting that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula.

SOURCE: ABCMe (2020, 22nd April) ClickView, https://clickv.ie/w/pdGv

1915 Battle of Lone Pine

The Battle of Lone Pine
The Battle of Lone Pine (also known as the Battle of Kanlı Sırt)[Note 1] was fought between Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) and Ottoman Empire[Note 2] forces during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War, between 6 and 10 August 1915.
Battle of Lone Pine 6 to 10 August 1915
Lone Pine was planned as a diversion to keep Turkish reserves from the main Allied attack, an attempt to break out of the Anzac perimeter and capture the heights of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971.
Battle of Lone Pine
One of the most famous assaults of the Gallipoli campaign, the Battle of Lone Pine was originally intended as a diversion from attempts by New Zealand and Australian units to force a breakout from the ANZAC perimeter on the heights of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971.
Article: Lone Pine [The Cove]
The Battle of Lone Pine was fought from 6 - 10 August 1915, between the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) and Ottoman Empire forces during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War.
Lone Pine [Dept. Veterans Affairs]
Lone Pine was an action that featured one of the most famous assaults of the Gallipoli campaign.
AIF Memorial: Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey

1915 Battle of the Nek [7th August]

Battle of The Nek 7 August 1915
Battle of the Nek
Charge at The Nek
How ANZAC'S battle at The Nek went wrong
The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli
By late summer of 1915, the Allies were faced with a dilemma.
Battle of 'The Nek'
Charge of the 3rd Light Horse at 'The Nek'

HASS09 History - Aquinas ANZAC Memorial Battles: 1915 Battles of Gallipoli, Anzac Cove, Lone Pine, Nek.

Map of Gallipoli Invasion 1915

1915 Gallipoli, Anzac Cove. [25th - 19th April December]

Videos

1915 Battle of Lone Pine

1915 Battle of the Nek [7th August]