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20 unusual facts about Gallipoli


1st Mounted Division

In September 1915, the brigade was dismounted and moved via Egypt to ANZAC bridgehead on Gallipoli, attached to 54th Division.

Geoffrey Rhodes Bromet

Bromet attended the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and then served as a Flight Commander in the First World War being commended for his service in Gallipoli in 1915 and later commanding No. 1 Squadron RNAS and then No. 8 Squadron RNAS.

George Rankin

Rankin served in the 4th Light Horse Regiment and reached Gallipoli in May 1915, was wounded in July, became a captain in December, and a major in March 1916.

Godfrey Collins

He served in Egypt, Gallipoli, and Mesopotamia from 1915–1917, and was appointed a Lieutenant-Colonel in September 1916.

Hillarys, Western Australia

Hillarys was named after an early settler, Bertram John Hillary (1895-1957), who had become blind in his right eye while fighting in Gallipoli during the World War I.

History of the periodic table

In 1914, a year before he was killed in action at Gallipoli, the English physicist Henry Moseley found a relationship between the X-ray wavelength of an element and its atomic number.

James Bucknall Bucknall Estcourt

As adjutant-general he performed his duties efficiently during the weary months of waiting and sickness at Gallipoli and at Varna, and also at the battles of Alma and Inkerman.

John Gallishaw

He took part in the evacuation of Gallipoli where he was wounded and eventually he was demobilised.

John La Nauze

Shortly after his fourth birthday, his Mauritian-born father Captain Charles La Nauze was killed by Turkish artillery fire at Silt Spur (southern ANZAC sector) Gallipoli.

Kilwinning Old Parish church

The Memorial Screen was dedicated in 1990 to the memory of Colonel A. R. Cole-Hamilton who died at Gallipoli in 1915, his mother Sarah, and his wife Gladys.

Maurice Nicoll

After his Army Medical Service in the 1914 War, in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, he returned to England to become a psychiatrist.

National Library for the Blind

1916, the year of the final withdrawal from Gallipoli and of the devastating Battle of the Somme, was key in determining the future of the Library.

Piyale Pasha

He graduated from the Enderun with the title of Kapıcıbaşı and was appointed Sanjak Bey (Province Governor) of Gallipoli.

Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford

During this time he also served from 1911 to 1917 as a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Royal North Devon Yeomanry, serving at Gallipoli, and in Egypt and Palestine.

Rowhedge

During the First World War, a bridge was built across the river to enable members of the nearby Colchester garrison to board trains at Wivenhoe when on their way to Gallipoli.

Royal Buckinghamshire Yeomanry

In September 1914 the Brigade was transferred to the 2nd Mounted Division and moved with them to Egypt, until August 1915 when they were dismounted and sent to Gallipoli.

Sussex Yeomanry

In September 1915 the regiment was dismounted and moved to Gallipoli, landing at Cape Helles on October 7, 1915 and attached to the 42nd Division.

Tinui

In 2009 the Air Force began promoting Tinui as an alternative to travelling to Gallipoli.

Viscount Bridport

Maurice Henry Nelson Hood, who was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915.

Wickepin, Western Australia

Albert Facey, Gallipoli veteran and author of A Fortunate Life, lived south of the town from 1922 to 1934 with his family.


Alan Moorehead

In 1956, his book Gallipoli about the Allies' disastrous World War I campaign at Gallipoli, received almost unprecedented critical acclaim (though it was later criticized by the British Gallipoli historian Robert Rhodes James as "deeply flawed and grievously over-praised").

Arthur Walderne St Clair Tisdall

On the first day of the Gallipoli landings (25 April 1915) at V Beach, Gallipoli, during the landing from SS River Clyde, Tisdall heard wounded men on the beach calling for help.

He was mortally wounded by a sniper during the Second Battle of Krithia at Achi Baba, Gallipoli, Turkey on 6 May 1915, and was buried where he fell, but today has no known grave.

Aubrey Abbott

He joined the New South Wales Police Force and on 1914 enlisted in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force, and then transferred to the Australian Imperial Force, and served in New Guinea, Gallipoli, and Sinai.

Beaufort Hospital

Gilbert Spencer (Stanley Spencer's younger brother who also served as a medical orderly) recalled his first terrifying moments at Beaufort when he was surrounded by a 'ward full of wounded Gallipoli soldiers, their skins sunburnt and their clothes bleached and the soil of Suvla Bay still on their boots.' (1)

Birdwood, South Australia

The new name honoured Sir William Birdwood, the Australian Imperial Force general who led the ANZACs at Gallipoli.

Çanakkale Province

The European part is formed by the Gallipoli (Gelibolu) peninsula, while the Asian part is largely coterminous with the historic region of Troad in Anatolia.

Cornelius Haga

Haga laid the foundations of diplomatic relations and he erected numerous consular posts at the most important ports and trade-centra in the Ottoman Empire; Patras, Thessaloniki, Athene, Gallipoli, Izmir, Aleppo, Sido, Dairo, Tunis and Algiers.

Fall of the Serbian Empire

Followed by their penetration into Thrace, in 1354 they acquired Gallipoli on the European side of the Dardanelles.

Graham Savage

From 1914-9 he served in the Royal West Kent Regiment in Gallipoli, becoming a Captain then a Major.

Harold Baigent

He also appeared in the 1981 film Gallipoli as a camel driver and he had many roles on television, including two characters in The Flying Doctors (1987–1991).

Leon Gellert

Christchurch-based composer, Richard Oswin made use of his poem, The Last to Leave, in his choral work commissioned by the New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir, Three Gallipoli Settings.

Miramar Peninsula

Atatürk Memorial: a plinth on a cliff overlooking Tarakena Bay and Cook Strait commemorates Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, statesman and general, who led Turkish troops in action against New Zealand soldiers at Gallipoli in the First World War.

Neşâtî

Neşâtî first become affiliated with the Mevlevi order as a disciple of the shaykh Ağazâde Mehmed Dede, first in Gelibolu in Thrace and then in Beşiktaş in Istanbul.

Newtownards

The centre commemorates the involvement of the 36th (Ulster) and 16th (Irish) divisions in the Battle of the Somme, the 10th (Irish) Division in Gallipoli, Salonika and Palestine and provides displays and information on the entire Irish contribution to the First World War.

OPET

The villages Alçıtepe, Seddülbahir, Bigalı, Kilitbahir, Kocadere, Behramlı, Büyükanafarta ve Küçükanafarta included in the area that witnessed to the Gallipoli Campaign as well as the county of Eceabat have been rehabilitated and given a new look.

Order of battle for the Gallipoli Campaign

Note: When the campaign commenced, the Fifth Army comprised two army Corps; the III Corps was defending the Gallipoli peninsula and the XV Corps was defending the Asian shore.

Oswald Carver

At the beginning of May 1915, the troops left Egypt to go into action at Gallipoli.On 4 June in the Third Battle of Krithia, the Engineers were to follow Territorial Battalions of the Manchester Regiment in an infantry attack on the Turkish positions.

Plugge

Plugge's Plateau Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, the smallest Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey

Reconquest of Gallipoli

The reconquest of Gallipoli was a successful attempt by Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy, to take back Gallipoli after its capture by the Ottomans in 1354 following a disastrous earthquake.

Richard Henderson

Richard Alexander Henderson, First World War stretcher-bearer at Gallipoli and the Somme

Ronald Blythe

His father, who had seen action in the First World War at Gallipoli and in Palestine, came from generations of East Anglian farmers and farm workers.

Royal Irish Fusiliers

At 5-30 pm on 6 August the battalion sailed to Suvla Bay, Gallipoli aboard the minesweepers “Snaefell” and “Honeysuckle”.

Sarah Snook

While studying at NIDA, she performed in stage productions of Macbeth and Gallipoli, and since graduating appeared in King Lear performed by the State Theatre Company of South Australia.

The Spirit of Gallipoli

The footage of the Gallipoli dream sequence is taken from the silent movie The Hero of the Dardanelles (1915).

Walter Parker

Walter Richard Parker, VC (1881–1931) -- English infantryman, honoured for bravery at Gallipoli in World War I

Wilfred St Aubyn Malleson

On 25 April 1915 during the landing at V Beach, Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey, Midshipman Malleson and three others (William Charles Williams, George Leslie Drewry, George McKenzie Samson) of HMS River Clyde assisted the commander (Edward Unwin) of the ship at the work of securing the lighters under very heavy rifle and Maxim fire.

William Bolton

William Kinsey Bolton, commanding officer of the Australian 8th Battalion AIF during World War I for the landings at Gallipoli

William Lane

He died on 26 August 1917 in Auckland, New Zealand, having been editor of the Herald from 1913 to 1917, much admired, having lost one son Charles at a cricket match in Cosme in Paraguay, and another Donald on the first day of the ANZAC landings (25 April 1915) on the beaches of Gallipoli.