Gallipoli Association
About Gallipoli Association
The Gallipoli Association - We are proud to be in our 50th year of remembrance, honour and study of the Gallipoli campaign. Registered Charity No. 1155609.
Gallipoli Association Description
Numerous veterans' associations were formed in the years following the Great War (1914-1918) but surprisingly none existed for the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16 until 1969 when on the initiative of Major Edgar Banner, a number of veterans established an informal group, meeting from time to time to exchange shared memories and if possible to recall not only their own experiences but also those of the units in which they served. Very soon they had started their own Association Journal, 'The Gallipolian' was initially cyclostyled but, as membership increased, it became a properly printed magazine published three times a year, in which articles of high historical, academic and literary merit appeared.
Reviews
On This Day in 1915: "It is quite calm now and a fine day; thus we are given an opportunity of digging the mud out of the trenches and to work on a system of drainage. But we want roofing badly. Unlike " V " Beach, now a perfect harbour, safe against almost any sea, " W " Beach at the first heavy swell becomes impossible for landing any supplies.
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Deputy Quartermaster General Walter Campbell, Headquarters, MEF - It took five long weeks from the despatch of Monro’s appreciation of the situation at Gallipoli, in which he clearly recommended evacuation, to his receipt on 8 December of the final decision of the British Cabinet taken the day before). At last a decision was made: Anzac and Suvla would be evacuated and the final date was set for 19 December.
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On This Day on 2 December 1915 - Second Lieutenant Mehmed Fasihhad found himslef in severe trouble over Anzac wiring activity in No Man's Land.
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A great piece of work by David Stewart, Australian school teacher
On This Day in 1915 - Captain Peter Ashton, 1st Herefordshire Regt, 158th Brigade, 53rd Division - Although there were many gullies at both Anzac and Helles, the location of most of the trenches up on the ridges and spurs meant that they were spared the worst of the floods, though communication through the formerly dry gullies was halted. But at Suvla the wide open spaces of the plain were crossed by several streams that were capable of catastrophic flooding.
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ANZAC - Private George Edward King, 19th Battalion AIF, 5th Brigade, 2nd Australian Division, ANZAC - King, in his diary entry for 25 November, unknowingly wrote about a new ruse that was going to help with the evacuation. Rumours were of course spreading at the time, but no one ever thought that Gallipoli would be abandoned.
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A section of the attack frieze on the Turkish 57th Regiment Memorial at Anzac. Well worth a visit for those planning a trip to the Gallipoli battlefield.
The story of Trooper Potts VC
When a Sikh sepoy saved a British 2nd Lieutenant’s life at Gallipoli
A special morning at Ashton Cenotaph where Gallipoli Association member Mike Crane laid the wreath, a replica of the exact wreath placed there by the old comrades of the 9th Manchester Regiment all those years ago.
The Gallipoli Association contingent at The Cenotaph this morning - 11/11/18 #FestivalOfRemembrance #Armistice100 #RemembranceDay #LestWeForget
Some pics from today’s sold out 7th Annual Gallipoli Conference at the RAF Club in London.
Thank you to all members and guest who attended today, and of course a big thank you to our speakers who were truly superb. A special thanks goes out to the Army Cadets who presented so well on their experiences for their recent bursary battlefield trip.
Ataturks legacy from battlefield to nationhood: The Gallipoli Association attended the Turkish ambassadors residence in London this evening to mark the 95th Republic Day for Turkey.
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