SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands turned out across Australia on Saturday morning for dawn services commemorating the 100th anniversary of the doomed WW1 campaign at Gallipoli, an event viewed by many ...

T he Gallipoli Peninsula, forming the western edge of the Çanakkale Strait (the Dardanelles), is where history whispers through the crisp fall air and the crunch of gravel underfoot. As you walk ...

Only a few months passed before he was shipped out to Gallipoli with the 1/6th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers and given the impossible task of taking the Turkish peninsula from the sea ...

As the 100th anniversary of the start of WW1's Gallipoli campaign approaches ... At dawn on April 25th 1915, Allied troops invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in Ottoman Turkey.

The landings began at dawn on 25 April 1915 when allied troops stormed ashore on Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula. The mission, directed by Winston Churchill, was poorly equipped and is considered to ...

The only surviving ship from the First World War Gallipoli campaign is to be opened ... Turkish were able to bring extra troops onto the peninsula to better defend themselves.

1915 Soldiers sent to Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula under British orders - 11,500 Anzac troops died during the conflict The aim of the invasion was to open up Turkish waters to allies and seize the ...

The campaign on Turkey's Gallipoli peninsula has resonated through generations, which have mourned thousands of soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) cut down by ...

As dawn breaks on April 25, 1915, ANZAC troops go into battle on the beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula. Landing in the dark chaos, Tolly, Bevan and their mates struggle to establish a tenuous ...

A Royal Irish Fusilier attracts Turkish sniper fire by holding his helmet above the trench on his rifle As the 100th anniversary of the start of WW1's ... invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in ...