The Turks had some 60,000 troops ready on the Gallipoli peninsula awaiting the allied arrival. The initial landings schedule for 23 April were delayed for 48 hours due to bad weather. The allied ...

In Australia the Returned & Services League (RSL) said it was monitoring the situation and hoping the graves of Australians and New Zealanders killed in the seminal WWI Gallipoli campaign would be ...

When World War I broke out in 1914, the British military could count on 278 hospital beds in the whole of Malta. But the strategic Gallipoli debacle in the summer of 1915 instantly showed up the ...

Allied heavy artillery in action on top of a cliff at Helles, Gallipoli, WW1. British and French ships were unable to break through Ottoman defences, so a land invasion was begun to destroy these ...

Even many years later, veterans of 25th April 1915 recall vividly the intensity of events during the early hours of the landing and subsequent, exhausting and bitter contesting of ground ...

Australian troops charge near a Turkish trench just before the evacuation at Anzac. 1915. Source: © CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images ...

The tragedy of Gallipoli was the result of a series of errors and misjudgments by British civilian leaders and military commanders, which began to unfold on February 19, 1915, with the first ...

Honouring the Centenary of the commencement of WW1, ANZAC Girls is a moving new six-part series based on the rarely told true stories of nurses serving at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Watch all ...

Honouring the Centenary of the commencement of WW1, ANZAC Girls is a moving new six-part series based on the rarely told true stories of nurses serving at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Watch all ...