Gallipoli Walks and Talks

11/10/2024

Dardanelles

15/09/2024

Hell and Confusion connecting people.
Jim Grundy

23/06/2024

Sgt. Albert Michael Sullivan, 3rd Light Horse Field Ambulance, wrote from Anzac on 23rd June 1915.

“Things liven up at times... but at the present moment not even a rifle-shot can be heard. It is a most glorious morning. At 6.30 I crawled from my dug-out and had a swim; then breakfast of bacon, biscuits, and jam. And now as I am writing this, the sky is beautifully clear and blue; the sea is likewise, and as still as the surface of our old lake. From my position on the hillside I can see right through the crystal water. And round about the horizon is cut by a sprinkling of the Isles of Greece. Among the many birds in the scrub are wrens and doves, but bullets and 'shrap' make observation hardly worth while.” [1]

[1] 'Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser' (Victoria), 9th August 1915.

Image: “The 3rd A.L.H. Field Ambulance Hospital Situated in the Sazli Beit Dere, at Anzac, 1915.” AWM J02661.

27/04/2024

Kilitbahir @

27/04/2024

25th April 1915: “A boatload of 6th Battalion soldiers on their way to land at Anzac Cove after leaving the transport ship HMT Galeka.” [1]

[1] AWM C01420.

27/04/2024

Eceabat Town @

18/04/2024

Shore excursion in Canakkale Gallipoli

30/03/2024

The New Memorial near Düztepe Battleship Hill ANZAC GALLIPOLI

30/03/2024

23/11/2023

ANZAC

21/10/2023

Wax models of Kabatepe Simulation Center Gallipoli Peninsula

25/09/2023

Writing on 22nd September 1915, Sgt. Frederick Arthur Elworthy, 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment, reflected on his experience on the peninsula. A good shot, he admitted that he'd enjoyed himself, even the “slaughter,” but not the smell that followed.

“Things have gone on well with me since enlisting. I joined the Light Horse as a private, and have now risen to a senior-sergeant, and if I had come through my last engagement without being wounded I would have still gone higher. I was amongst the few that didn't get their six feet of earth, so I ought to be thankful. When on the field I could always go about with a feeling of security and an indifference to the gruesome sights around. I got a fine introduction to the nature of our work on the field the first week ashore. I was put in charge of an outpost for ten days, at the entrance to Dead Man's Gully, and adjoining a portion of land known as Bloody Angle. I assure you the names were quite appropriate. In our immediate front the Turk's trenches ran out on to a steep cliff, 80 yards away, and a little to the right front were their trenches again, about 400 feet up and 150 yards away. The bullets used to come rather thick at night, and things were interesting at times, as we were lying fully exposed. Fortunately, I never lost a man the ten days there, but the day after we were relieved one poor chap was sniped through the head on the same post. The bullets were nothing to the stench that floated down the Gully from the dead. It was awful — make an iron monkey sick. From the top outpost I counted 47 of our dead. The morning the Turks charged all along the line was the 'best ever,' and they left between 3000 and 4000 dead in front of our trenches. I'm not exactly callous, but I will admit I was delighted with the slaughter. The running man target at Randwick I seldom missed, so you can imagine the chances the Turks had when they were on top of our parapets, and ducking about only 80 yards away. They were such clear targets, and big men, and our boys did mow them down. The Turks asked for an eight hours armistice to bury their dead, which was granted. It was a sight never to be forgotten that day. I was out with a burial party and was all along the line. It was strange — yarning to the Turks and exchanging ci******es, etc., and a few hours later using all your cunning to 'wing' one.” [1]

[1] 'The Gundagai Times and Tumut, Adelong and Murrumbidgee District Advertiser' (New South Wales), 9th November 1915.

20/09/2023

20/09/2023

CWGC

19/09/2023

19/09/2023

Bu Vatan uğruna savaşıp Gazi ünvânı alan ,Başta Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk olmak üzere tüm Gazilerimizin ve Şehitlerimizin ruhları şad olsun mekanları cennet olsun. Resimde 25 Nisan 1915 Çanakkale kara savaşlarında düşmanı ilk karşılayan 27.Alay Gazileri ve Komutanları Şefik....

14/09/2023

Sir Peter Hart at Lone Pine Gallipoli ANZAC

31/08/2023

You belong here as much as I do.