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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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Anzac Landing in photos |
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| Map of the actual landing
of the covering force (3rd Brigade, Australian 1st Division) at Anzac
Cove on April 25, 1915 during the Battle of Gallipoli. The red dotted
lines are the paths of the first wave in the battleship tows, the orange
dotted lines are the paths of the second wave from the destroyers'
boats. The red solid lines mark progress of the force after landing.
Derived from Map No. 11 in Ch.12, Vol. I "The Story of Anzac" of the Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18 by C.E.W. Bean. |
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Troops of an Australian Battalion on the
deck of the battleship Prince of Wales in Mudros Harbour just before the
landing.
This ship was part of the fleet which transported Australian troops to the Gallipoli landing at Anzac Cove. Note that the troops are all wearing peaked caps, not the slouch hat. |
| Scene on board HMS London. In preparation for the landing on Gallipoli the decks of the battleships which were to carry the troops, were marked out in white, into areas in which the various platoons would assemble in the dark on the night of 24/25 April 1915. |  |
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At 6.00 a.m., watched by other soldiers Australian troops leave a transport ship, by means of rope ladders, for the landing at Anzac Cove |
| Gallipoli Peninsular, Turkey.
1915-04-25.
A steam pinnace towing ships' boats full of stretcher bearers from 1st Australian Field Ambulance to Anzac Cove at 0800 hours. (Donor: T. Yeomans). |
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A view looking aft of
lifeboat carrying unidentified men of the 1st Divisional Signal Company
as they are towed towards at Anzac Cove at 6 am on the day of the
landing.
Note the variation in headwear; some slouch hats, some peaked caps, some tropical helmets.
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| Gallipoli, Turkey.
1915-04-25.
Six boat loads of Australian troops being towed towards Anzac Beach early on the morning of the landing. (Donor P. Miller). |
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Troops, supplies and tents along the beach at Anzac Cove not long after the landing. |
| An Australian soldier lies
wounded in the foreground, as hundreds of other soldiers move among the
dead and wounded on the beach at Anzac Cove on the day of the
landing.
The soldiers wearing Red Cross arm bands are tending to the wounded. |
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| Boxes of equipment are stacked among the men and the beach is also littered with discarded personal equipment. This scene is looking along the beach to the north. | |
| View of Shell Green, the
only level cultivated patch on Anzac at the time of the landing.
Note the artillery wagons in the foreground, concealed by bushes from enemy aircraft and artillery spotters. |
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Anzac Beach a few days after the landing. In the foreground is the site chosen for the 1st Australian Divisional Headquarters. |
| Looking up Anzac Gully, at
the top of which can be seen a mule team under cover. This was the site
of the original HQ of 1st Australian Division after the landing.
Photo taken in 1915-12. (Donor Lt.-Colonel A.M. Martyn.) |
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Digging in at Pope's Hill:
end of a great day
The 16th Battalion digging the original trenches at Pope's Hill on the evening of the Landing at Anzac 25 April. Soldiers after a battle digging in for the night, one soldier injured. Strewn about are spent cartridges, ammunition boxes, ration boxes. Pope's Hill is in the Quinn's Post Area, Gallipoli. Ellis Silas.1920 |
| Beach scene, at Anzac Cove following the arrival of the 8th and 9th Light Horse regiments in barges and pinnaces, May 21, 1915. |  |
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Trench name plate, 'The
Wozzer' : Rhododendron Spur, Gallipoli
Sign roughly made of sheet metal, probably taken from a biscuit tin, attached by two nails to a piece of timber which appears to have been part of a box. The metal has an overall patina of (inert) rust, and has been punched with small holes to form the words 'THE WOZZER'. This sign is a battlefield relic collected at Rhododendron Spur after the war. 'The Wozzer', or more correctly, the 'Haret el Wasser' near Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, was a notorious brothel district which was well known to Australian and New Zealand troops who had trained in Egypt before the landing. |
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Landing Troops & Horses At The Dardanelles. |
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Boats Landing Troops at Gallipoli. |
