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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.
Helles: Fighting at Krithia Vineyard continues with an attack by the 42nd Division. Anzac: After a lengthy delay, the New Zealand Infantry Brigade attempts to capture Chunuk Bair but fails. 8 Anzac: Battle of Chunuk Bair Attacking at 3.00 a.m., New Zealand and British infantry gain a foothold on Chunuk Bair; Lt Col William Malone is killed.
Gallipoli: An Australian Encyclopedia of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign. McRae, Victoria: Slouch Hat Publications. ISBN 9780957975255. Erickson, Edward J. (2001) [2000]. Ordered to Die: A History of the Ottoman Army in the First World War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing. ISBN 0-313-31516-7. Gilbert, Greg (2013). "Air War Over the Dardanelles".
The commanders at Gallipoli already realised that the Dardanelles Campaign was a lost cause. ... This included fighting at Dellis Abbas (27–28 March 1917), Duqma ...
On 24 March, Enver Pasha the Ottoman Minister of War unified the military forces around the Dardanelles, under the command of Marshal Otto Liman von Sanders and the Fifth Army headquarters. On arrival at Gallipoli, Liman ordered that the garrisons in the peninsula be concentrated and the 5th and 7th divisions were moved to Bulair.
King George V inspects the 29th Division at Dunchurch, 12 March 1915. The 29th Division served on the Gallipoli peninsula, a point in the strategic Dardanelles straits between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea (and thus the Mediterranean). The division was there for the duration of the ill-fated campaign.
The Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (MEF) was the part of the British Army during World War I that commanded all Allied forces at Gallipoli and Salonika.It was formed in March 1915, under the command of General Sir Ian Hamilton, at the beginning of the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War.
The Story of ANZAC from the Outbreak of War to the End of the First Phase of the Gallipoli Campaign, May 4, 1915. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918. Vol. I (11th ed.). Sydney: Angus and Robertson. OCLC 220878987. Bean, Charles (1941b) [1926]. The Story of ANZAC from 4 May 1915, to the Evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula ...