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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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Total numbers who served in
the Gallipoli Campaign. |
| Australia.
Exact figures not yet available. Approximately 50,000 Australians served
on Gallipoli. Remember that at the start of the war Australia had
promised Britain an army of 20,000. The Gallipoli casualty figures
exceeded that number. |
| New Zealand.
8,556 New Zealanders landed on the Turkish peninsula during the
nine-month campaign. The last New Zealand veteran died in 1999, and
there are no surviving Australian veterans either. Of those 8,556 men, 2,721
died during the campaign and 4,752 were wounded. Those fit enough served
in France and Flanders or in the Sinai-Palestine campaigns which further
reduced their numbers. Many of those who returned to New Zealand
suffered from dysentery and related illnesses for the rest of their
lives. |
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The Last of the Old
Campaigners |
- Last of the Gallipoli
Veterans:
- The last New
Zealand soldier was Alfred
Douglas Dibley, who served as a stretcher-bearer at Gallipoli.
Born at Wellington, New Zealand, on 26 June 1896, he died at
Rotorua on 18 December 1997, aged 101 years.
- The last French
soldier was Ernest Stocanne. He was born 6 January, 1894, and
served on Gallipoli with the 17th Artillery Regiment, French Expeditionary
Corps. He died in December 1999, aged 105.
- The last British
soldier was Percy Goring, who served on Gallipoli with the Royal
Engineers, 54th (East Anglian) Division. He died in Bunbury,
Western Australia, on 27 July 2001, aged 106.
- The last Australian
soldier, and last survivor of all who served on Gallipoli, was
Alec Campbell. Born in Tasmania on 26 February, 1899, he served
at Gallipoli as a sixteen-year-old with the 15th Battalion. He
died in Tasmania on 16 May 2002, aged 103.
- The details of the last Turkish
soldier are unknown to me. One of the last has his story told on
this site at Turkish Veteran
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