Remembering Gallipoli, the grinding WWI battle to take the Dardanelles
- 9 years ago
Soldiers’ descendants have come to commemorate the British allied forces in WWI landing in Gallipoli, Turkey, 100 years ago.
The 25th April is known as “Çanakkale” in Turkish, or “Anzac Day”, as Australians and New Zealanders spearheaded the campaign, taking brutal losses.
The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) was a First World War army corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force
Naval attacks also failed.
In eight months of fighting, many died on both sides: attackers and defenders.
Official histories vary in their figures, though by some estimates the allied and Turkish losses were roughly equal, at more than a quarter of a million on either side, including from sickness.
Out of the killing grew national consciousness; colonies became nations, the Ottoman Turkish Empire died, modern Turkey was born.
Officer and later reformist statesman Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is famously quoted as telling his men, down to their bayonets: “I do not order you to fight,
The 25th April is known as “Çanakkale” in Turkish, or “Anzac Day”, as Australians and New Zealanders spearheaded the campaign, taking brutal losses.
The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) was a First World War army corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force
Naval attacks also failed.
In eight months of fighting, many died on both sides: attackers and defenders.
Official histories vary in their figures, though by some estimates the allied and Turkish losses were roughly equal, at more than a quarter of a million on either side, including from sickness.
Out of the killing grew national consciousness; colonies became nations, the Ottoman Turkish Empire died, modern Turkey was born.
Officer and later reformist statesman Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is famously quoted as telling his men, down to their bayonets: “I do not order you to fight,