Chris Mackie has received funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs for research work on the Gallipoli Peninsula (Joint Historical and Archaeological Survey, 2010-2014). There are few ...

The 100th anniversary of March 18, 1915 – the day which would later be celebrated in Turkey as "Canakkale Victory and Martyrs’ Day" – has brought together thousands of people across the country and ...

There were few days worse in the first World War for the Irish than the landings at Gallipoli in Turkey on April 25th, 1915. On board the River Clyde, a converted collier, were men from the 1st ...

It has been 100 years since the Gallipoli campaign, a doomed World War One military operation that claimed the lives of more than 100,000 men. The landings began at dawn on 25 April 1915 when allied ...

Hundreds of Turkish youth on Thursday walked the path leading to the theatre of one of the most decisive battles in the Gallipoli Campaign in the WWI in Turkey which changed the course of the war. The ...

On April 25, 1915, when British, French, and Australian and New Zealand troops landed on the strategic Gallipoli Peninsula, their objective was to knock out Ottoman defenses and make way for Allied ...

Troops of the 14th Sikhs of the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade examining a piece of a shell that fell in their camp.(Imperial War Museum © IWM (Q 13372)) Most ...

Like many of the other great battles of the First World War, Gallipoli was actually a series of clashes, any of which would have qualified as a huge battle by itself in a previous era. After the first ...

Australia was in mourning on Friday after the death of a 103-year-old World War I veteran who was the last known survivor of the disastrous 1915 Gallipoli campaign. Alec Campbell was one of 50,000 ...

People from around the world are marking the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli - one of the costliest phases of World War One. It is thought that more than 130,000 died as the Allies ...