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This article presents the timeline of the Gallipoli Campaign.The period of the proper battle is considered to be 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916; however, a number of events took place between August 1914 and January 1915 that are relevant to the battle.
Australian soldiers from the 1st Infantry Brigade at Lone Pine, 6 August 1915 This is an order of battle listing the Allied and Ottoman forces involved in the Gallipoli campaign during 1915. Allied forces
Gallipoli also had a significant impact on popular culture, including film, television and song. [297] In 1971, Scottish-born Australian folk singer-songwriter Eric Bogle wrote a song called "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" which consisted of an account from a young Australian soldier who was maimed during the Gallipoli campaign. The song ...
List of Allied warships that served at Gallipoli; List of Australian military personnel killed at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915; ... Timeline of the Gallipoli Campaign
The New Zealand and Australian Division was a composite army division raised for service in the First World War under the command of Major General Alexander Godley. Consisting of several mounted and standard infantry brigades from both New Zealand and Australia, it served in the Gallipoli Campaign between April and December 1915.
At dawn on April 25, 1915, thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) were among a larger Allied force that landed on the narrow beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula ...
On 25 April, at the start of the Gallipoli Campaign, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), commanded by Lieutenant-General William Birdwood, [2] landed at Beach Z, later to become known as Anzac Cove. [3] [4] [nb 2] The beachhead was not a large position. Including two isolated outposts in the north, No. 1 Post and No. 2 Post, it ...
Soldiers from the 4th Division near Chateau Wood, Ypres, in 1917. In Australia, the outbreak of World War I was greeted with considerable enthusiasm. Even before Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914, the nation pledged its support alongside other states of the British Empire and almost immediately began preparations to send forces overseas to engage in the conflict.