
'A priceless treasure' - Australian War Memorial
2020年6月11日 · It’s one of the first things visitors to the Australian War Memorial see: a bullet-riddled, steel lifeboat that carried troops of the 13th Battalion ashore during the Gallipoli landings more than 100 years ago.
Gallipoli landing - National Museum of Australia
On 25 April 1915, 16,000 Australian and New Zealand troops landed at what became known as Anzac Cove as part of a campaign to capture the Gallipoli Peninsula. The British had been trying to force their way through the narrow straits known as the Dardanelles to capture Constantinople and so relieve pressure on their Russian allies engaged with ...
A difficult landing - Australian War Memorial
The landing on Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 did not go to plan. The first boats, carrying the covering force, became bunched and landed about a mile north of the designated beaches. The main force landed on too narrow a front and became intermixed, making it difficult for the troops to regroup.
Landing at Anzac Cove - Wikipedia
The landing at Anzac Cove on Sunday, 25 April 1915, also known as the landing at Gaba Tepe and, to the Turks, as the Arıburnu Battle, was part of the amphibious invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula by the forces of the British Empire, which began the land phase of the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War.
Books On War: First Ashore at Gallipoli the Anzac Landing
2014年2月28日 · What were the Row Boats being used during the Gallipoli Landing? The rowboats and steam boats used by the covering force were supplied from all the Battleships allotted to the landing. The rowboats assembled to land the men were not all the same size but consisted of Life boats and Cutters (normal carrying capacity around 30 men), Pinnace (60 ...
Landing at Anzac Cove 25 April 1915
On 25 April 1915, 16,000 Australians and New Zealanders, together with British, French and Indian troops, landed on the Gallipoli peninsula. The invasion was part of a campaign to: British forces landed at Cape Helles on the southern tip of the peninsula while French troops carried out a feint landing at Kum Kale on the Dardanelles' Asian shore.
Ship's lifeboat from HMT Devanha which was used during the …
2012年4月25日 · This timber lifeboat is from the P&O SS Devanha known as Troopship A3 at the time of the Gallipoli landing in 1915. The Devanha served as both a troop transport ship (HMT) and later hospital ship (HMHS). It was used by 12 Battalion AIF, 3 Field Ambulance and 3 Infantry Brigade Head Quarters during the landings at Gallipoli in 1915.
The Gallipoli 100
The Gallipoli 100 was a surfboat race featuring surfboats manned by Australian, New Zealand and Turkish crews held on 21 and 22 April 2015 from Eceabat (SL Kilitbahir - Çanakkale) to North Beach (FL Ariburnu).
The Landing - Gallipoli
Australian troops in small boats being towed by a pinnace in the harbour on the Greek island of Lemnos, a practice for the landing on the Gallipoli Peninsula.(http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2010/04/21/wednesday-21st-april-1915 …
The Hero of the Dardanelles: Beach landing at Gallipoli
Australian long boats reach the beach at Gallipoli, early in the morning on 25 April 1915. Hundreds of men storm ashore under heavy fire from rifle and artillery. Many die on the beach, and are left behind as the Anzacs rush the cliffs. More long boats follow them onto the beach, with support fire from naval ships.