It had been preceded in February 1915 by a naval attack on the Dardanelles, the strait dividing Gallipoli from mainland Turkey—the opening of a campaign that would be regarded as one of the ...

During the 1915 battle, also known as the Gallipoli Campaign or the Dardanelles Campaign, Ottoman artillery held off British and French warships from taking the capital Constantinople (later ...

The Gallipoli Campaign, fought between April 1915 and January 1916, was a key theater of World War I. This battle saw Allied forces—primarily from Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand ...

In the event, the evacuation was the single most successful part of the Gallipoli campaign. Between early December and 8 January 1916, nearly 40,000 troops and tons of equipment were successfully ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands turned out across Australia on Saturday morning for dawn services commemorating the 100th anniversary of the doomed WW1 campaign at Gallipoli, an event viewed by many ...

They were the only nurses to die on Lemnos during the Gallipoli campaign and the first women to die in wartime while serving in the Canadian army. The nursing sisters, as all the Canadian nurses ...

Lines of headstones bear the names of men “believed to be buried” in the cemetery; the phrase, a Gallipoli commonplace, succinctly evokes the carnage and the chaos of the campaign, and a ...

John Simpson Kirkpatrick served on the frontline in the 1915 Gallipoli campaign during the First World War but was killed 110 ...

Following the launch of the Lemnos Remembrance Trail website by the Australian government, the Ambassador in Athens shares ANZAC family stories and invites Australians living in Greece to connect with ...