Key events in the gallipoli campaign
The landing on 25th april 1915 https://www.awm.gov.au/wartime/34/article/ on dawn April 25th 1915 the first anzac soldier arrived at Anzac cove in galliopoli penusla in turkey (also known as Çanakkale). There were approxiametley 60,000 Australian soldiers and 18,000 new zealand soldiers who were under the command of sir Ian Hamilton.
At 4:30 under Hamiltons command the royal navy started firing. Some of the battilion were under heavy fire and so the battle of gallopoli began. During the early days of the campaign, the allies tried to break through the Turkish lines and the Turks tried to drive the allied troops off the peninsula. There were many unsucceful events including the attack on lone pines and the attack on the neck. …show more content…
(The act of dropping bombs or artelleryfire from both land and naval guns), at the turks at 400 Plateau also known as Lone Pine.As soon as the bombardment ceased, Australian soldiers of the 1st Brigade went from the trenches and underground firing positions to rush the Turkish front line at Lone Pine. However they were met by turkish fire. Hundreds were killed and the third and 4th battalion started to advance. They managed to reach the fturkish front line. The attack at Lone Pine was a distraction with one main objective. The Australians were to take and hold the third and fourth lines of the trench system, so that Turkish reinforcements could come to the battle. This went horrible
The landing on 25th april 1915 https://www.awm.gov.au/wartime/34/article/ on dawn April 25th 1915 the first anzac soldier arrived at Anzac cove in galliopoli penusla in turkey (also known as Çanakkale). There were approxiametley 60,000 Australian soldiers and 18,000 new zealand soldiers who were under the command of sir Ian Hamilton.
At 4:30 under Hamiltons command the royal navy started firing. Some of the battilion were under heavy fire and so the battle of gallopoli began. During the early days of the campaign, the allies tried to break through the Turkish lines and the Turks tried to drive the allied troops off the peninsula. There were many unsucceful events including the attack on lone pines and the attack on the neck. …show more content…
(The act of dropping bombs or artelleryfire from both land and naval guns), at the turks at 400 Plateau also known as Lone Pine.As soon as the bombardment ceased, Australian soldiers of the 1st Brigade went from the trenches and underground firing positions to rush the Turkish front line at Lone Pine. However they were met by turkish fire. Hundreds were killed and the third and 4th battalion started to advance. They managed to reach the fturkish front line. The attack at Lone Pine was a distraction with one main objective. The Australians were to take and hold the third and fourth lines of the trench system, so that Turkish reinforcements could come to the battle. This went horrible