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The Gallipoli campaign, the Dardanelles campaign, the Defence of Gallipoli or the Battle of Gallipoli (Turkish: Gelibolu Muharebesi, Çanakkale Muharebeleri or Çanakkale Savaşı) was a military campaign in the First World War on the Gallipoli peninsula (now Gelibolu) from 19 February 1915 to 9 January 1916.
During World War II, the Australian I Corps HQ moved to Greece in March 1941 (Operation Lustre). As the corps also controlled the New Zealand 2nd Division (along with Greek and British formations), it was officially renamed ANZAC Corps on 12 April.
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Fighting continues for six days in which time seven Victoria Crosses are awarded. Suvla : At 10.00 p.m. the British 11th (Northern) Division , part of IX Corps , begins landing. Anzac: Under cover of darkness, two columns of Anzac, British & Indian troops break out to the north, heading for the heights of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971.
World War II: Bonis–Porton; South-West Pacific 1943–45; Liberation of Australian New Guinea. [ 29 ] In 1961, the battalion – although no longer on the Australian Army's order of battle – was entrusted with the three battle honours awarded to the 2/26th Battalion for its service with the 2nd AIF during World War II.
The fighting climaxed on 21 August with the Battle of Scimitar Hill, the largest battle of the Gallipoli campaign. When it too failed, activity at Suvla subsided into sporadic fighting until it was evacuated by the British in late December. Conditions during the summer had been appalling because of heat, flies, and lack of sanitation.
The 2/1st London Bde was broken up in October and the battalions sent individually to reinforce formations fighting at Gallipoli. 2/2nd Londons embarked aboard HMT Simla on 5 October and then remained in Mudros harbour during a storm. It was transshipped to HMT Sarnia on 13 October and landed at Cape Helles that night.
A large commemorative Portland stone obelisk, built in 1921 to remember the Division's review by King George V before they were sent to Gallipoli, is located on a roundabout on the A45 just north of Stretton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire. [2] A memorial to the 29th Division is located in Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial.