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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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Maps of Gallipoli, Egypt training camps & Suez Canal |
New maps following the first landings. The
British 1:40,000 map of the Gallipoli peninsular was recognised as being
defective, but nothing better was available until various maps were
captured from the Turks following the landings on 25 April. The Turkish
maps, following German practice, were at 1:25,000 and 1:50,000, and
"were in Turkish characters and somewhat illegible and torn, but
they were re-photographed in Egypt, transliterated, and reprinted as an
English edition, with the naval grid." from Imperial
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This map show a broad view of the area including the Aegean Islands of Lemnos and Imbros as well at the Dardanelles and the Sea of Marmara |
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This map shows the unsuccessful naval attack on the heavily mined and well defended waterway called 'The Dardanelles". This is the "Battle of 18 March" and this is the day that the Turks celebrate as their great victory. Anzac Day (25 April) means little to them. >>> |
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Black & white maps from "Gallipoli" by Les Carlyon ISBN0-7329-1128-1 |
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The Terrain at Anzac |
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image gives a very good idea of how hard the job of the Anzacs was made by
the Navy landing them over a mile north of the beach they had been ordered
to attack. |
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This relief map of the
Gallipoli Peninsular shows, yet again, the Plains of Maidos east of Gaba
Tepe (Kabatepe) that the Anzacs were supposed to advance over.
The taking of some of the heights of the lower sections of the Sari Bair Range were intended as a protectionary measure against enemy artillery fire as the troops rolled across the plains to split the peninsular and threaten the forts from behind. It was not intended that the Anzacs take and hold all the Sari Bair Range. |
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Egypt showing Cairo, Anzac training camps and the Suez Canal |
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| Egypt and the Suez Canal: This map shows how the troops defending the Suez Canal could have been quickly reinforced from the training camps near Cairo. |
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Map of Gallipoli |
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This map, originally
printed on parchment paper, shows some of the difficulties faced by the
men at the time and by historians.
It has the Anzacs landing on 29 April. It has Bulair township marked on the wrong side of the Peninsular. What is marked is the Bulair area. The township is a lot closer to the centre of the isthmus. It shows a feint attack by Royal Naval Division that was not planned as a landing and never happened as a landing. It was here that Freberg VC of New Zealand first came to notice. He was awarded the DSO for swimming ashore and setting flares. He was the only man that landed. Sort of a 1 man invasion. With hindsight if the RND has landed maybe the Turkish 7th Division sent to attack Anzac might have been kept in the Bulair area. |
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A Map of All the Graveyards of Gallipoli |
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