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The Battle of the Landing Part 1
As Dawn approached the first wave of men (3rd Australian Battalion) made their way towards the shore on Row boats with a mission to storm the beach and push inland as fast as they could. When the men got close to the shore the Turkish soldiers had already spotted them and had begun firing. Some men were killed before getting to the beach but most just injured, however a few died by drowning on their final swim to the shore. -
The Battle of the Landing Part 2
However soon there were hundreds of Australian diggers storming the beach and beginning their accent into the Turkish trenches. Despite their efforts to get inland, and the landing of the bulk of their infantry, the Anzacs were held by the Turks to an area of the peninsula. -
Australian Troops arrive in Gallipoli
Once the straits were clear, the allied fleet would steam into Constantinople where, it was believed, the threat of the fleet's guns would cause mass panic and force Turkey to surrender. At dawn on 25 April 1915, the ANZACs landed north of Gaba Tepe (the landing area later named Anzac Cove) while the British forces landed at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula. -
The Battle of Hill 60 Part 1
The Battle of Hill 60 was one of the last major attacks in the Gallipoli campaign, The Battle took place on Hill 60 which was a hill that if the Anzacs captures it would have linked the Anzacs and the Suvla landing securely. Two big attacks were made by Allied forces, the first on 21 August and the second on 27 August. The first assault resulted in limited gains around the lower parts of the hill. -
Battle of Hill 60 Part 2
The attack was continued after the Ottoman’s managed to defend their land, by a fresh Australian battalion on 22 August. Reinforcements were committed, but nevertheless the second major assault on 27 August ended almost exactly the same as the first, and although fighting around the summit continued over the course of three days, at the end of the battle the Ottoman forces remained in possession of the summit. -
End of the Fighting
The Gallipoli campaign was a heroic battle but a costly failure, by December 1915 plans were drawn up to evacuate all British and Australian soldiers from Gallipoli and send them home. By the 9th of January all 172000 troops with insignificant injuries had been evacuated.
