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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Princess Royal has remembered “brave Anzacs” in their own words during a dawn service in north-west Turkey where thousands fell 110 years ago. On a day when the sacrifice of Australian and ...

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 ...

The Battle of Gallipoli, also known as the anakkale Campaign, constitutes a significant point in the national history of the Turkish people, as well as in the history other countries that fought ...

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 ...

The medals of a heroic seaman who saved comrades despite being shot in the backside during the Gallipoli campaign are being sold at auction. Leading Seaman William Pierce was hit in an assault on ...