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The last surviving individual who had served in any capacity for any of the combatants during the Gallipoli campaign was Alec Campbell (2731). [17] Born in Tasmania on 26 February 1899, Campbell saw action at Gallipoli aged 16 (having given his age at the recruiting office as 18 years 4 months). He died in Tasmania on 16 May 2002, aged 103 ...
Brigadier-General Henry Normand MacLaurin (31 October 1878 – 27 April 1915) was an Australian barrister and an Australian Army colonel who served in the First World War.He was shot dead by a Turkish sniper at Gallipoli, and was posthumously promoted to brigadier general when all brigade commanders in the Australian Imperial Force were thus promoted.
[97] [91] ANZAC casualties on the first day numbered around 2,000 men killed or wounded. [97] The failure to secure the high ground led to a tactical stalemate, with the landings contained by the defenders in a perimeter less than 1.2 mi (2 km) long. [91] The landing of Australian troops at ANZAC Cove, Gallipoli, Turkey, 25 April 1915
Total losses amongst the ANZAC Corps amounted to around 8,000 casualties in the period from the landing to 3 May. [61] To make up for the deficiencies caused by the detachment to Krithia, and the losses from disease and combat, [ 62 ] in mid-May 1915, Australian and New Zealand mounted soldiers began arriving at Gallipoli as reinforcements.
One of his cousins had died already at Gallipoli, and the idea of Campbell's deployment terrified his parents. His unit embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Kyarra on 21 August 1915, and Campbell landed at Anzac Cove in early November 1915. He assisted in carrying ammunition, stores and water to the trenches.
This use is reflected in ANZAC Day, which commemorates both the Gallipoli landings specifically and all Australian and New Zealand soldiers that have served or died in wars more broadly. During WWI, the term also referred to the location of the Gallipoli landings, in what is now known as Anzac Cove (also called simply Anzac at the time). [13]
Lone Pine Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery dating from World War I in the former Anzac sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey and the location of the Lone Pine Memorial, one of five memorials on the peninsula which commemorate servicemen of the former British Empire killed in the campaign but who have no known grave.
Matthews died in his sleep on 9 December 1997 at the age of 101. [2] [5] At his death, he was the last living veteran of the Gallipoli landing. [2] [6] Matthews had been inducted to the Australian Living Treasures list in 1997. He made several public statements of the futility of wars.