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Churchill's plan
Winston Churchill, the First Lord of the British Admiralty Churchill felt that Turkey was unlikely to remain neutral between Britain and Germany and that the Turks would enter the war on the German side. He wanted to produce a plan to capture the Gallipoli Peninsula. So they would have a head start. He consulted the greek army and the produced a very detailed plan to capture the peninsula. this would involve 60,000 troops including the ANZAC's -
Dardanelles Closed
Turkey Close the straits and lay mines along throughout the water making it almost imposible for any sea vessel to make it through to to the other side. -
Australian Hospital Ship
The Australian hospital ship left Brisbane, Australia carrying the Queensland nurses of the Australian Army Nursing Service. (AANS) -
AIF prepare to start training
The Australian Imperial Force started disembarking to Egypt to commence training. Training was in Egypt because England was not ready to recieve the troops. -
Naval Attacks
Gallipoli began as an naval strategy by Winston Churchill to force the Ottoman Empire out of the war. The plan was to attack the capital Constantinople from the sea by forcing open the Dardanelles. -
Gallipoli Landing - ANZACs
The invasion plan of was for the 29th Division to land at Helles on the tip of the peninsula and then advance upon the forts at Kilitbahir. The Anzacs were to land north of Gaba Tepe on the Aegean coast, from where they could advance across the peninsula, cutting off retreat from or reinforcement of Kilitbahir. -
Gallipoli Landing - Britain
Hamiltons plan was to land infantry at points along the coast, then cross the peninsula to take the forts. Then the entire force would group together and take the village of Krithia, and take the forts defending the narrows. At the V beach landing, high death toll in the boats from machine gun fire caused the whole force to divert and take the V beach together. -
Gallipoli Landing - French
The French plan was to make a landing to distract them on the Kum Kale on the Asian side of the Dardenelles and then crossed to meet the British at Cape Helles. -
The Battle Of Kithria
Despite the heavy casualities on the landing day, Hamiltion commanded a attack on the small village of Krithia. The french held the right flanck and the British approched from the South and West. The frontline went forward only to be driven back in some parts this was because of exhausrtion and casualties. -
Beachy Bill
The Turks started shelling the Anzacs from a new position. The Australians called it 'Beachy Bill' and 'Beachy Bill' caused over 1000 casualties at Anzac Cove -
The Battle Of Kithria (2nd)
The battle of Krithia was an offensive made by the Anzacs to take the stone houses above Helles. The British had already failed at taking Krithia few days after the landing. The battle was lost as the Anzacs were not able to make it to the housing as shown by this passage from Charles Bean: The stone houses of Krithia were still 2000 yards away, but in advancing 1000 yards the brigade, already reduced at Anzac to 2900 men, lost in one short hour another 1000. Casualties were over 7000 men all up -
Formal Truce Made Between Allies and the Turks
On the 24th of May the Allies and Turks create a formal truce so that Both can help their wounded. On this day all the Turkish soldiers who died in th month of May were burried. This Picture represents a the peace offering one of the opposing sides would have put up when asking for a truce. This would is traditionally used for demostrating a surrender or peace offering. -
The Battle Of Kithria (3rd)
Hamilton launched a third attack against Krithia on this day, he attempted to catch the Ottoman trenches 100 yards in front. His plan was to bombard the trenches with artillery fire, then feint an attack by infantry to draw out their soldiers so they could be bombarded again, the casualties for the Ottomans was 9000, and the ANZACS was 6500. -
Prisoners of War
Six Australians had become prisoners of war after a fail attack. Out of the six prisoners, three were left at the end of their captivity -
Victorian school's get involved
Victoria's department of education involved school children by encouraing them to look for old sheets, pillow cases, towels, table cloths, white shirts and white blouses to be used a bandages in the Australian hospitals in Egypt. -
ANZACs take Turks Trenches
The ANZACs managed to take one on the Turks trenches. Which was good as this did not happen to often. -
The August Offensive
On this day the ANZACS captured a Turkish trench at Lone Pine, but a simultaneous attck by the British on the Krithia Vineyard was not successful. The Ottomans however were not decieved by these feints, and sent reinforcements to meet the New Zealanders at Chunuk Bair and delayed their assault until the morning. -
The End of The August Offensive
This day consisted of the final offensive by the British which attempted to capture Scimitar Hill and Hill 60, capturing these points would unite the ANZAC and Suvla fronts but this goal was not achieved, and that point ended the August offensive -
The Silent Stunt
Between the 24th and the 27th ANZAC troops are ordered not shoot at the enemy unless threatened or attacked. This was done so when time for the evacuation the turks would not think anything was different to the norm. -
Evacuation From Gallipoli
The Allies complete the evacuation of the failed campaign of Gallipoli. This was the most successful operation in the whole campaign. The Turkish soldiers are unaware of the evacuation because of making tricks like using guns to fire automatically without a men operating them. 83,000 troops are evacuated. This Photogragh is a primary source.