During World War I, Attlee was given the rank of captain and served with the South Lancashire Regiment in the Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey.

In Australia, Britain, New Zealand, South Africa and Newfoundland and Labrador, the terms Gallipoli Campaign or just Gallipoli alone are used to describe the eight-month campaign.

The Gallipoli Campaign is the subject of the 1981 movie Gallipoli directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson.

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It had successfully repulsed an attack on Istanbul in the Gallipoli Campaign and on Baghdad in the Siege of Kut.

Britain fought the Ottoman Empire, suffering defeats in the Gallipoli Campaign ) and in Mesopotamia, while arousing the Arabs who helped expel the Turks from their lands.

In the Gallipoli Campaign in the spring of 1915 in the eastern Mediterranean, German U-boats, notably the U-21, prevented close support of allied troops by 18 pre-Dreadnought battleships by sinking two of them.

These figures do not include the losses of Dominion forces in the Gallipoli Campaign, since records were incomplete.

* April 25 – WWI: Start of the Gallipoli Campaign ( lasting until January 1916 ): Landing at Anzac Cove by Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and landing at Cape Helles by British and French troops to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire.

William served in the Berkshire Yeomanry in the First World War and was killed during the Gallipoli Campaign on 21 August 1915.

Yet he was instead eventually persuaded to support Winston Churchill's disastrous Gallipoli Campaign in 1915 – 1916.

The villages Alçıtepe, Seddülbahir, Bigalı, Kilitbahir, Kocadere, Behramlı, Büyükanafarta ve Küçükanafarta included in the area that witnessed to the Gallipoli Campaign as well as the county of Eceabat have been rehabilitated and given a new look.

Charles Bean ( The Story of Anzac: From the Outbreak of War to the End of the First Phase of the Gallipoli Campaign 4 May 1915, 1921 ) Geoffrey Blainey ( The Tyranny of Distance, 1966 ), Robert Hughes ( The Fatal Shore, 1987 ), Manning Clark ( A History of Australia, 1962 – 87 ), and Marcia Langton ( First Australians, 2008 ) are authors of important Australian histories.

Other well-known singers of Australian folk music include Rolf Harris ( who wrote " Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport "), John Williamson, and Eric Bogle whose 1972 song " And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda " is a sorrowful lament to the Gallipoli Campaign.

A commemorative statue of John Simpson Kirkpatrick, a famous stretcher bearer who was killed in the Gallipoli Campaign.

The Australian experience of defeat in the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, which is viewed as the first iconic moment in modern Australian war involvement, is viewed by Australians with both pride for the fighting of the soldiers, and bitterness for the perceived negligence on the part of British commanders.

Soldiers in a trench during the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I

Beached at Stanley, she was later re-floated and took part in the Gallipoli Campaign.

As 2 April 1915 was Good Friday, many ANZAC troops waiting to go to the Gallipoli Campaign were on leave, and many of them went to the Birka.

Fisher had opposed Winston Churchill over the Gallipoli Campaign, and felt that he could not continue in government if the two would be in conflict.

Freyberg took part in the beach landings during the Gallipoli Campaign and the youngest general in the British Army during the First World War, later serving on the Western Front where he was decorated with the Victoria Cross and three DSOs, making him one of the most highly decorated British Empire officers of the First World War.

During the 1st World War British prisoners of war who had been captured at Gallipoli were housed here in an empty Armenian church at the foot of the rock.

Later, when he returned to the front, he was informed that his company had been chosen to hold the final lines when Gallipoli was evacuated.

He also started to settle migrant Turcomans and town-dwelling Turks in the strategic city and castle of Gelibolu ( Gallipoli ), which had been devastated by a severe earthquake and was therefore evacuated by its inhabitants.

If the losses from Fromelles on 19 July are included, Australia had sustained more casualties in six weeks in France than they had in the eight months of the Battle of Gallipoli.

Troops intended for Gallipoli had to train in Egypt ; and the port found it difficult to cope with casualties of the ill-starred Gallipoli campaign.

By autumn 1915 Asquith ’ s Coalition was close to breaking up over conscription, and in the absence of firm leadership ad hoc campaigns had developed in Sinai, Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and Salonika.

Sandhurst was given an office in the Security Service's temporary accommodation in Wormwood Scrubs prison and as a first step approached the President of the Radio Society of Great Britain ( RSGB ), Arthur Watts, who had served as an analyst in Room 40 during World War I following the loss of a leg at Gallipoli.

Great as the disappointment had been over the failure at Gallipoli, there was some comfort in the fact that the evacuation had been so successful.

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 the Healy brothers supported the Allied and British war effort, two had a son enlist in one of the Irish divisions, Timothy's eldest son, Joe, fought with distinction at Gallipoli.

Each of its mission stations, at Tekirdağ and Alexandroupoli, had a school ( Minor Conventuals ), and there was one at Gallipoli ( the Assumptionists ).

Gallipoli had been retaken by the Byzantines ten years before, with the assistance of Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy.

( This same battalion had won six VCs at W Beach during the landing at Cape Helles, Gallipoli on April 25, 1915.

The emperor later attacked Gallipoli attempting to conquer the city from the remnants of the Company under the command of Berenguer d ' Entença who had arrived with 9 Catalan galleys.

At Gallipoli in 1915, the Chief Field Censor was William Maxwell, a British journalist who had been in Kuroki's entourage during 1904-1905.

The Irish Parliamentary Party was discredited after Home Rule had been suspended at the outbreak of World War I, in the belief that the war would be over by the end of 1915, then by the severe losses suffered by Irish battalions in Gallipoli at Cape Helles and on the Western Front.

From 1953 to 1959 he was Governor-General of Australia, regarded by many Australians as an authentic war hero who had fought with the Anzacs at Gallipoli.

Slim was a popular choice for Governor-General since he was an authentic war hero who had fought alongside Australians at Gallipoli and in the Middle East.

" With a cost of $ 2. 8 million, Gallipoli had the highest budget of an Australian film to date.

The 13th Division had landed at Anzac on the Gallipoli peninsula in July 1915 in preparation for the August Offensive that was launched on 6 August.

The strategic importance of the Bosphorus remains high, and control over it has been an objective of a number of hostilities in modern history, notably the Russo – Turkish War, 1877 – 1878, as well as of the attack of the Allied Powers on the Dardanelles during the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli in the course of World War I.

In the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park, a portable tribune with an 11, 000-person capacity has been built in the Anzac Cove and Lone Pine Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery Lone Pine Memorial region.

It has been speculated, therefore, that the character Edgar Doe, who dies in Gallipoli ( the East ), is based on Reginald Corbet, while the character Archibald Pennybet, who dies on the Western Front, is based on George Corbet.

Upon arrival in Egypt, the 13th Division was finally reunited with its artillery units, many of which had been stationed in Egypt while the rest of the division had been fighting in Gallipoli.

Like the other Australian Light Horse and the New Zealand Mounted Rifles regiments, they had been dispatched to Gallipoli in May as infantry reinforcements, leaving their horses in Egypt.

The 2nd Division had been formed in Egypt in 1915 and was sent to Gallipoli in August.

Another VC recipient was Captain Alfred John Shout who had already earned the Military Cross and been Mentioned in Despatches earlier in the Gallipoli campaign.

Memorial " Lone Pine " trees have been planted in Australia, New Zealand and Gallipoli to commemorate the battle and the Gallipoli campaign in general.

Lawrence was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, but Chauvel, having already been made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for South Africa and Companion of the Order of the Bath for Gallipoli, was recommended for a lesser award, which he refused.

Gaza was now completely surrounded and following Desert Column's orders the 53rd ( Welsh ) Division, which had not been in action since Gallipoli, made a direct attack from the south and east towards Ali Muntar ; the 160th ( Welsh Border ) advancing towards Esh Sheluf was in position by 08: 30 and the 158th ( North Wales ) Brigade advancing towards Mansura, and the 159th ( Cheshire ) Brigade had crossed the wadi by 08: 25 but had to wait an hour before Dallas ordered them to Mansura to support the 158th.

The first use took place after they had been towed to the Aegean and performed successfully in the 6th August landings at Suvla, Battle of Gallipoli.

Had the landing at Y Beach been properly managed, the outcome of the Gallipoli campaign could have been significantly different.