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Gallipoli Campaign

  • 3:30am

    Queensland troops from the 9th, 10th and 11th Batallion transfer from the battleships onto row boats to be tugged to shore as the landing party, to meet the unknown waiting Turks.
  • 4:50am

    The Turkish Major Hallis loses his communication with Captain Faik, fearing the worst Hallis orders his heavy guns to fire. This has devistating effect on the covering and incoming forces as hot metal from the shrapnel kills and wounds many Australian men.
  • 7:00am

    ANZAC troops are forced to dig into the cliffs as more and more ANZAC's crowd onto the beach still under fire from General Hallis and his men.
  • 6:00pm

    Over 16 000 Australian men have landed at Z beach. 2 000 of these men are dead or have been injured and 2 000 more are missing in action or unnacounted for. The Turks have the upper hand and it will stay this way for the next 8 months of brutal war.
  • 4:30am

    Troops of the 9th, 10th and 11th Batallion land on the shore of Z beach to be met by Turkish fire. They were known as the Landing Party.