Gallipoli

On 25 April 2015, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac) landed at Gallipoli in Turkey during the First World War. Despite the achievement of the Anzac in carving out a small bridgehead at Anzac Cove, the attempt by the Allies to seize the Gallipoli peninsula from the Ottoman empire and gain control over the strategically-important Dardanelles ultimately failed. Read more about the facts, and myths, of the WW1 campaign…

Troops pictured during the Gallipoli campaign of the First World War

First World War

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A British officer stands alongside two of his Japanese counterparts in 1914 in Tsingtao (now Qingdao). Japanese troops played a key role in the capture of that strategic German concession in north-east China. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Australian troops (widely known as ‘Diggers’) at Anzac Cove in April 1915

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Australian troops head for Gallipoli in 1915

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