Gallipoli

World War One Australian Gallipoli Veterans on 25 April 1939.

1980 Ted MacGregor, Gallipoli veteran..

1980 Gallipoli veteran, F. J. Silver having a well deserved cup of tea.

1980 Two survivors of Pozie’res, ANZAC Day, Adelaide.

The 29th of August at Hill 60, Gallipoli in 1915, during a fierce bomb fight, Hugo Throssell earns a #VC for staying at his post despite wounds. he became a socialist and a pacifist and after a few poor financial choices committed suicide in 1933. His medals at @AWMemorialre to edit.

Two former enemies meet at Gallipoli for the75th Anniversary of the famous battle in 1915

Anglo-French Fleet in the Canakkale Narrows, The Dardanelles, March 1915

The firing after a burial, Lemnos Island.

Men of the 14th Sikhs, 29th Indian Infantry Brigade burying a comrades, killed by a bomb. Anzac Cove, Dec 1915

Gallipoli Photographs 1915 - Lest We For get

Gallipoli Mountain gunners of the 4th Highland Mountain Brigade, RGA at Gallipoli, 1915.

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Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC of Gallipoli Campaign died in 2002 at the age of 103. He lied about his age to enlist as he was only 16.

GALLIPOLI: Stretcher bearers struggle to carry a wounded soldier down a steep slope near

75th Anniversary of the Gallipoli Landing, Corporal Adil Sahin of Buyuk Anafartalar and West Australian Len Hall of the 10th Light Horse

The oldest Anzac, John Malcolm McCleery of Perth, Australia, visiting the Lone Pine Memorial on his 103rd birthday, on 25th April 1990. He felt sad as he read the names of the fallen comrades from the 11th Battalion.

Bill Scurry's tinny idea that workedat the evacuation of Gallipoli.

7th of August in 1915 the Battle for Lone Pine begins. The Australians suffered more than 2,200 casualties at Lone Pine and the Turks over 5,000.

World War 1 - Gallipoli Official war historian Charles Bean pictured on the Island Of Imbros, in 1915

Jack Ryan 95 throwing a wreath of poppies into the Aegean Sea at Anzac Cove 1990

An unknown Australian Gallipoli veteran

Prime Minister John Howard with Gallipoli veteran Alec Campbell in 2000.

World War I veteran Jack Ryan, who was injured at Lone Pine, recounts his memories to reporter Daniel Lane.

Corporal Adil Sahin of Buyuk Anafartalar and West Australian Len Hall of the 10th Light Horse met as friends at the 75th anniversary on the Gallipoli

Adil Sahin of the village of Buyuk Anafartalar, Gallipoli, and Harold Edwards, Australia, embrace at an Anzac Day lunch at the 75th Anniversary of the Gallipoli Landing.

Going home: dismissed General Ian Hamilton, commander of Brit. forces, leaves #Gallipoli

A PAINTING DEPICTING TURKISH SOLDIERS IN A TRENCH AT GALLIPOLI IN 1915

WW1 - PHOTOGRAPHS FROM GALLIPOLI 1915 TO 2015

ANZAC Suvla and Helles. After several weeks of debate and delay, Anzac and Suvla were finally relinquished on 19 December 1915, with Helles following suit on 9 January 1916. Lest We Forget.

Here Kitchener is speaking to Australian troops on #Anzac Beach. 13th November 1915 World War 1

World War 1 ANZAC Beach, Gallipoli, 6 weeks after the Landing.

Gallipoli - North Beach and Walkers Ridge.

The Australian Camp at Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, World War 1

An Australian officer visiting a small war cemetery at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, World War 1

Men of the 14th Sikhs, 29th Indian Infantry Brigade burying a comrades, killed by a bomb. Anzac Cove, Dec 1915 World War 1

ANZAC TROOPS PLACE MOTAR INTO POSITION

World War 1 graffiti from two New Zealand soldiers

Soldiers at The Nek, Gallipoli 1915.

Gallipoli 1015, is one of the most infamous campaigns of the First World War

Gallipoli 1915 - Australians spent the afternoon at boat practice, & rowed to the Russian cruiser Askold, round her and back to the transport.

#Gallipoli 9 Oct 1916 #Çanakkale #Seddülbahirden İngiltere ve müttefikleri son birliklerini de çekmiştir.

In August the last major attempt made by the Allied forces at Gallipoli to break the stalemate since the landings on 25 April 1915. It involved attacks at Chunuk Bair, Hill 971, Suvla Bay Area, Lone Pine and the Nek.

Turkish and British Soldiers in hand to hand combat on the Gallipoli Peninsula Turkey 1915

100 years since the first ANZAC landings at Gallipoli 1915

Gallipoli 1915 a rough riders horse objecting to being used to draw a transport wagon.

JOHN AUGUSTO EMILIO HARRIS killed in action at Gallipoli in World War One aged 15 years old.

Early Aircraft at Gallipoli 1915

Gallipoli 1915, a Turkish gun silenced by the Queen Elizabeth at Seddulbahr

Unloading supplies at Gallipoli 1915

Gallipoli 1915 A view at Lancashire Regiment Landing at Cape Helles'

Soldiers relaxing and posing for a photograph at Gallipoli

Gallipoli Campaign 1915 World War 1.

A rare photograph of a soldier relaxing at Gallipoli

Another rare moment at Gallipoli Campaign 1915

Gallipoli 1915

A stray Turkish shell explodes in the sea at Gallipoli 1915

Turkish prisoner of war at Gallipoli 1915

TURKEY 1914

Gallipoli 1915 - A rough riders horse objecting to be used to draw transport wagon.

Australian dead in captured Turkish trenches at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, 8 August 1915.

World War One Gallipoli 1915

AN EARLY TURKISH AIRCRAFT

GALLIPOLI - WW1 TURKISH NURSES

Gallipoli 99 yıl önce 20 Aralık 1915 günü İngiltere birliklerini Suvla ve Arıburnu'ndan tahilye etti. Sonun başlangıcı.

Gallipoli 1916 Commodore Roger Keyes on the beach during final hours of evacuation of Gallipoli.

Indian soldiers at Gallipoli

AN AAUSTRALIAN SOLDIER AT GALLIPOLI

THE BRITISH ATTACK FROM THEIR TRENCH AT GALLIPOLI 1915

A SOLDIER POSES IN A PHOTOGRAPH WITH HIS SON BEFORE GOING TO POSSIBLE DEATH AT GALLIPOLI

TURKISH SOLDIERS FIGHT IN TRENCH - GALLIPOLI 1915

French soldiers at Gallipoli

WW1 A collection of photographs of the French Troops from the Gallipoli campaign 1915

A HILL MADE OF TURKISH SKULLS RECOVERED AT GALLIPOLI - 1919

WW1 A collection of photographs of the French Troops from the Gallipoli campaign 1915

Kiwis at Gallipoli

Ghurkha stretcher bearers during the action near Hill 971, Gallipoli 1915.

The eventual Turkish victory was brought by the heroic Turkish soldiers' conviction and patriotism. As we gratefully and respectfully remember the soldiers ...

GREAT TURKISH HERO - MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK

GALLIPOLI - ANZAC COVE - 1915

CONVOY OF TROOP SHIPS LEAVE VICTORIA AUSTRALIA FOR ACTION IN WORLD WAR ONE

Departure Of 12th Battalion (Hobart) 20 Oct 1914

GALLIPOLI - ANZAC COVE - 1915

The Indians played a vital role at Gallipoli 1915

Indians at Gallipoli 1915

WW1 Gallipoli artefacts.

Australian WW1 troops at Gallipoli

WW1 -Gallipoli landing

WW1 Gallipoli - A Turkish soldier with a British soldier.

GALLIPOLI - ANZAC COVE - 1915

WW1 Gallipoli - Turkish soldiers

WW1 Gallipoli - Turkish soldiers eating and resting

WW1 Gallipoli - Wounded soldiers on hospital bout bound for the Island of Lemos.

WW1 Gallipoli - The shores of Gallipoli with the Sphinx in the back ground.

Turkish soldiers taking a break from battle

Turkish Soldiers World War One

#Gallipoli - Turkish Battery

Stretcher bearers of the 6th Field Ambulance carrying the wounded from an Advanced Dressing Station to a waiting motor ambulance for conveyance to the Casualty Clearing Station. 2 September 1918

Gallipoli - Aerial reconnaissance in the Dardanelles World War One Turkey, 1915

Gallipoli Airmen of the Ottoman 6th Fighter Squadron in Galata village near Çanakkale where the Dardanelles Fortified Zone's airfield was

GALLIPOLI - ANZAC COVE - 1915

LEST WE FORGET - THE FLANDERS POPPY

WINSTON CHURCHILL - HE PLANNED THE INVASION AND THE GALLIPOLI LANDING IN 1915

AUSTRALIAN TROOPS BOARDING A TROOPSHIP AT PORT MELBOURNE THAT WILL TAKE THEM TO GALLIPOLI 1915

AUSTRALIAN TROOPS SAYING GOODBYE TO PORT MELBOURNE - BOARDING A SHIP TO GALLIPOLI 1915

PRIVATE JOHN SIMPSON KIRKPATRICK CARRYING A WOUNDED SOLDIER AT GALLIPOLI - SIMPSON AND HIS DONKEY

AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS BEFORE THE CHARGE OF THE NEK, GALLIPOLI

ACTION AT GALLIPOLI

AUSTRALIAN TROOPS LAND AT ANZAC COVE

TRENCH WARFARE AT GALLIPOLI

ANZACS LAND AT ANZAC COVE, GALLIPOLI

ALEC CAMPBELL- LAST ANZAC DIED IN 2002 AGED 103

ALEC CAMPBELL - LAST ANZAC - DIED AGED 103

Die Schlachten von Gallipoli 1915 - das heisst die Seeschlacht um die Dardanellen vom 18. März 1915 und die amphibische Landung der alliierten Truppen, die am 25. April 1915 begann - hat sich tief in das kollektive Gedächtnis der heutigen Türkei aber auch von Australien und Neuseeland eingeprägt. Ebenso gedenken andere an den Schlachten beteiligte Nationen wie Frankreich und Grossbritannien der Geschehnisse und insbesondere der Opfer.Dass jedoch zu jener Zeit ein Bündniss zwischen dem Deutschen und dem Osmanischen Reich bestand und bei dieser Schlacht auch deutsche Soldaten beteiligt waren, ist landläufig kaum bekannt. Ebenso wird diese Tatsache in der Geschichtsschreibung des ehemaligen Bündnispartners wenig beachtet. Dabei waren bei den Kämpfen zu Lande, zur See und zur Luft unmittelbar vermutlich mehr als 1000 deutsche Soldaten beteiligt. Mehr als 200 Männer sind bei den Gefechten gefallen, deren Gräber aber im Laufe der Zeit verwitterten und nicht mehr zu finden sind.

Diese Homepage ist den verwundeten und gefallenen deutschen Soldaten von Gallipoli gewidmet. Es soll die Geschichte der Einheiten, deren Aufträge und Beteiligung bei den Kämpfen erzählt werden. Soweit möglich sollen die Namen aller deutschen Soldaten aller Dienstgrade, die bei diesen Kämpfen beteiligt waren, hier ebenfalls erfasst werden. Da die derzeit bekannten und einsehbaren Dokumente aber nur einen Bruchteil der dazu notwendigen Informationen geben, wird diese Seite von der Beteiligung aller Leser leben. Daher bitte ich um Prüfung und Ergänzungen, damit möglichst viele Namen und deren Geschichten hier veröffentlicht werden können.

Auch wenn der Soldatenfriedhof in Tarabya/Istanbul so gut wie keine Beziehung zu den Kämpfen von Gallipoli hat, ist dieser Ruhestätte ein besonderes Kapitel zugedacht. Hier soll etwas über die Geschichte des Friedhofes aber auch einiger der dort bestatteten Menschen erzählt werden.

Doch bereits vor der Schlacht von Gallipoli waren durch die Militärmission Liman von Sanders und die Mittelmeerdivision entscheidender Einfluss auf die Osmanische Führung und das Militär ausgeübt worden. Dieses wird ebenfalls in kurzen Aufsätzen dargestellt, die im wesentlichen aus meinem Buch "Gallipoli 1915" stammen.

Sydney Harrie Skinner

Gallipoli eyewitness: World War I soldier Sydney Skinner's letter to parents provides vivid account of Anzac landings By defence correspondent Michael Brissenden Updated Fri 25 Apr 2014, 11:28am AEST
At 4:00am on April 25, 1915, 22-year-old Sydney Harrie Skinner was just one of the expectant nervous Anzacs on board His Majesty's Australian Transport Ship 15 as it anchored off Kabe Tepe point on the Gallipoli peninsula. The ship, the Star of England, had steamed through the night from Lemnos Island in Greece. Sydney Skinner's letter home to his "Ma and Pa" provides an extraordinarily vivid first-hand description of the landing, the carnage, the horror and at times the excitement felt by many of those who took part in what was to become the defining moment in Australian military mythology. "As the day broke", he writes, "and the light became brighter you could just distinguish the land ahead. Along the shore were fifteen battle ships, laying grim, and silent, waiting for the shore batteries to open fire. At 5 am they opened fire on us – shrapnel was bursting everywhere." It is terrible the damage this shrapnel does, it mows down everything in its path, hundreds were either killed or wounded before reaching the land, those that did reach the shore were mowed down by the machine guns. Sydney Skinner describes how the battleships then returned fire on the Turkish shelling points on the shore. "The accuracy of the firing was wonderful, the shells would land right in the Fort, you would hear a deafening explosion, and tons of earth and stones would shoot up into the air." The troops were transferred to destroyers and then "taken ashore in pulling boats". On landing, the boats "received a hail of lead, the machine guns were pouring lead on to them and the air was alive with shrapnel. It is terrible the damage this shrapnel does, it mows down everything in its path, hundreds were either killed or wounded before reaching the land, those that did reach the shore were mowed down by the machine guns. It looked as if it was impossible for any man to remain alive."
Skinner describes coming under shell fire as his transport ship moved in to discharge the troops on board "shrapnel was bursting everywhere and one hit us forward, shells were striking the water all round". Wounded men mutilated by exploding bulletsThe young engineer himself was suffering from a "touch of pleurisy" that day. He remained on board to help with the wounded who were returned to the ship. "Very soon they started bringing wounded alongside, it was a terrible sight and one I will never forget... Looking through the field glasses you could see those trenches, and every time a shell landed, it blew them to pieces, sending earth, guns and all up to the air. "About 12.30 more wounded were brought alongside in a barge... it was terrible to see these men; you can't imagine what it is like unless you were here to see for yourself, the wounds are terrible. The Turks are using Dum Dum, and explosive bullets, they also mutilate the wounded." Aside from the vivid descriptions of the "shrieking shells" Skinner also describes the fighting as he could see it unfold from his vantage point offshore. "In the afternoon our Artillery effectively established itself on top of the first ridge, and opened fire on the Turks. Just before dusk the Turks tried to work round the shore to outflank our men. The battleship Queen discovered their move and immediately started to shell them. She only fired four shots into them and trees, earth and men were blown into atoms – it is terribly wonderful, the effect of these Lyddite shells. I believe the fumes from a Lyddite shell kills everything within a radius of thirty yards." At the end of his long letter home, finished almost a week later as they were sailing with wounded to Malta, Skinner sums up why this battle would become such a key part of Australian legend. "I don’t mind telling you, the Australians did great work, they were complimented on the fighting from the Queen Elizabeth (the flagship for the British General Sir William Hamilton, commander of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force and everyone admits the same. The casualties when we left were 6,000 killed and wounded." Sydney Skinner was one of those who returned from a war that comprehensively changed Australia. Many of those who survived came home with physical and mental scars that affected them for the rest of their lives. Skinner's daughter, Robin Oliver, says the war certainly did affect her father's nature. "They didn’t have counselling back then," she says. But Sydney Skinner did live a long and productive life. He died aged 79.