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The Graveyards of Gallipoli; A Digger History Associate Site |
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A Tribute to the Men of all the Nations that took part in the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 |
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Other medals to British & Anzac troops at Gallipoli |
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| Distinguished Service Order (DSO) | Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) | Distinguished Conduct Medal (DCM) | Military Cross (MC) |
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| Military Medal (MM) | Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) |
Mentioned in Despatches Oak leaf device worn on the riband of the Victory medal. |
Naval General Service Medal 1915-62 |
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These three medals were awarded to all "Anzacs" including nurses who served on nearby islands. |
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It
had been proposed by Lieutenant General Birdwood in October 1917 that a
Gallipoli Star
(originally to be called the ANZAC Star) should be
awarded to members of the Australian Imperial Force and 1NZEF who served
at Gallipoli.
King George V approved the idea the following month. However, by August 1918 when the design of the star and the conditions for award had been finalised, and stocks of ribbon forwarded to New Zealand and Australia, the proposal was reviewed by the British government following criticism from both members of Parliament and the media in the United Kingdom, who were uneasy about British and other forces of the Empire being ineligible for the proposed star. |
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| Gallipoli Star (British unofficial). | New Zealand's recently instituted Gallantry Star is based on the design of the original Gallipoli Star proposal. |
| After consultation with the Australian and New Zealand governments, the British War Cabinet agreed that the 1914-15 Star would be awarded to all personnel who had served at Gallipoli. (Source: Ian McGibbon (ed), The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Military History (Oxford University Press, Auckland, 2000), p.226). |
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| ANZAC Medallion. (Instituted 1967) Awarded to men and women who served on the Gallipoli peninsular or in direct support of operations. Available to next of kin of Anzac if he/she is deceased. |
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Medals of the "Last Australian Anzac" |
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Medals of "The Last Anzac", Alec Campbell. |
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Gallipoli Star was presented to Alec Campbell by Mr. Ross Smith at Lady
Davidson Hospital on 22 April 1990, just before the departure of the
75th Anniversary Anzac Day pilgrimage of veterans to Gallipoli. At his
own expense, Mr. Smith had the Gallipoli Star manufactured from the
original designs, which were not then approved for issue, to present to
surviving Australian and New Zealand Anzac veterans.
Alec William Campbell was born in Launceston, Tasmania, in 1899. Aged 16, he enlisted in the AIF in July 1916, claiming to be an 18 year old clerk, and despite his small size and obvious youth, sailed on the 'Kyarra' in August 1915 as No 2731 with the 8th Reinforcements to 15 Infantry Battalion. Landing at Gallipoli on 2 November, Campbell served as a water carrier for the remainder of the campaign at Anzac. While at Gallipoli, he suffered from a bout of influenza, and was also injured when accidentally struck in the face by a comrade's rifle. He, and the rest of the battalion, were evacuated from the peninsula as part of the general withdrawal on 13 December. On 1 January 1916, he was admitted to 2 Australian General Hospital in Egypt, and over the next six months suffered from jaundice, mumps and Bells Palsy, a form of facial paralysis caused by the facial injury he had suffered at Anzac. Although occasionally allowed to return to his unit, Campbell's health during this period was never good, and he was eventually repatriated to Australia medically unfit in June 1916, aboard the A.15 'Port Sydney', and discharged from the Army. After the war, Campbell worked in the construction of railway carriages and houses, before joining the Public Service, where he eventually became a research economist. The Bells Palsy which developed as a result of his Gallipoli injury eventually caused the loss of his right eye. When Roy Longmore died in June 2001, Alec Campbell was left as the only surviving Australian veteran of the Gallipoli campaign. He died on 16 May 2002 in Hobart. |
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New Zealanders decorated and Mentioned in Despatches at Gallipoli. |
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THE MILITARY MEDAL AWARDS TO THE (1st) NZEF FOR GALLIPOLI. |
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By P. Davey & G. Elliott. The Military Medal was instituted as a gallantry award for ranks in March 1916 and thus at the time of the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 was not available to recognise bravery. However in the London Gazette of 11 October 1916 there were forty eight MM awards gazetted to the NZEF for service on Gallipoli. By Corps they are:
The forty-eight recipients were:
REFERENCES. McDonald, Wayne. Honours & Awards to the NZ Expeditionary Torce in the Great War 1914 - 1918. 2001. Studhoime, John. Sonie Records of Officers & Others %ZEF. 1928. Waite, Fred. The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. 1919. |
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| The normal Campaign medals were awarded to the men of the Indian forces but they also had some other medals, some based on British awards, that were available only to them. | ||
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Indian Order of Merit Oldest gallantry award in the British Empire, introduced by the East India Company for its native troops in 1837. Originally in three classes. Was at first called the Order of Merit but the name was changed to Indian Order of Merit in 1902 to distinguish it from the newly instituted (Imperial) Order of Merit. |
Indian Distinguished Service Medal. Instituted in 1907 as an award to recognise distinguished services of Indian Commissioned and Non-Commissioned Officers, extended in 1929 to the Royal Indian Marine and in 1940 to the Indian Air Force. |
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