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The British has declared war upoun Germany. this was due to belgium refusing to allow the german troops to cross over to get to france. This made germany call war upoun the belgiums, so the british forces decided to call war on Germany.
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The Australian impearal force and the New Zeland Army Corps combine forces, and are later known as the ANZACS.
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Jim Martin has signed up for the war after blackmailing his mother into it.
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Jim Martin arrives at a trainging camp.
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The ANZAC troops land at the Arl Burnu in bay (soon to be named ANZAC cove) where the battle of gallipoli starts but the ANZAC troops landed in the wrong area, they had landed 1-2 kilometres north of where they had intended to land. Unfortunately the land where they had landed was a rough terrain and it was very troublesome. Even worse in the evening there was 16,000 that had landed and over 2.000 people had been killed.
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This is a timeline of the Galliopli campain
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By 0300 there were another 1700 deaths, most of the bodies had been evacuated though,
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The Turkish tried to counter attack the ANZACS into the sea but had failed and because they failed the couterattack the ANZACS has gained a small area which the Turkish did have.
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The first hospitial ship that had arrived at ANZAC cove has now left and reaches Alexandeeria, Egypt. There was 548 causalties and 14 of them had died during the voyage.
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The Turkish forces have started shelling ANZAC cove, they are doing this from a different position behind their lines. This was called (by the Australians) the 'beachy bill'. It was recorded that because of 'beacy bill' there was over 1000 casualties.
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Jim writes his first letter which is sent to his mother.
The following links have some of Jims letters:
http://www.arminwiebe.ca/Pages/LetterJim.html
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG0000970/?image=2&fullscreen=true
http://vrroom.naa.gov.au/records/?ID=25318 -
The british have lanched the third battle of Kirithia. The british had suffered over 4,500 casualties, the French had suffered more than 2,000 and the Turks admitted to having over 9,000 dead and wounded.
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The Turkish frount line had fallen because of the Aussie forces and the turkish came back with a very feirce counter-attacks.
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Sir Ian Hamilton had requested around 45,000 reinforcements to Gallipoli up to strengthen the troops he got another 50,000 to make further offensives possible.
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Jim Martin gets sick and then refuses treatment.
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Jim Martin has just died aboard the hospitial ship, unable to be saved in time.
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The Gallipolicampagin comes to a end with the Turkish forces winning.
