Gallipoli Campaign Research Paper

World War One is regarded as a major turning point in history and modern warfare which has impacted Australia monumentally, scarring the nation’s history. Australia played a significant role in World War One and the Gallipoli campaign, which is considered the birthplace of the ANZAC legend. These events have immensely shaped Australia as the nation we know of today. World War One began in 1914 from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ended in 1918 on November the 11th which is now recognised as a day of mourning and a time given recognition to the lives taken on the battlefield. To a prominent extent, the ANZAC legend is significant to the concept of Australian identity and nationalism through the origins of the ANZAC legend, the key events that have helped form Australia as an independent nation, and in addition to how ANZAC day is commemorated today.

In order to understand why the Anzac legend became so prominent, an understanding of Australia’s reasons for entering the First World War must be understood. Firstly, it was the first major war Australia would participate in as a state in its own right, less than two decades after Australian became a federation in 1901. According to Stanley,

The enthusiasm of many Australians led to the numerous volunteers participating in world war one in the defence of their British mother country against the Germans during world war one in Gallipoli, which lasted from 1914 to 1918.

The Battle of Gallipoli, or the Gallipoli Campaign, was fought during the First World War. It is known by either name because the Battle of Gallipoli featured many different battles and phases that comprised the entirety of the campaign. This engagement began on February 17, 1915 and ended on January 9, 1916. The Allied forces were tasked with attempting to secure the strait. The purpose of this was twofold: first, it provided the Russian Empire with much-needed shipping access, and second, it would serve to cut the Ottoman Empire in half. The Allies also planned to capture the capital of the Ottoman Empire during this operation. The British and the French attempted to launch a combined naval offensive

By the time the war was over in November 1918, more than 9 million soldiers had been killed. Those who survived Gallipoli would never again mistake war for adventure. Within 24 hours the plan had failed, leaving approximately 747 Australians dead on the first day. Gallipoli has become so important to Australia’s national identity because it was the first time Australian’s fought overseas. World War 1 has shaped the way Australia’s now lives as we grow to know, and respect the Anzac legend as we understand what the soldiers did for our nation. The ANZAC legend will always live on as the stories are passed through family, to family. Anzac Day is celebrated to ensured the campaign will never be forgotten.

The film Gallipoli takes place during World War I's Gallipoli campaign in 1915. The two main characters in the film are Archy and Frank. Archy and Frank are from Western Australia and they both enlist to fight in Gallipoli. Archy is an extremely fast runner who meets Frank at an athletics competition. We can see from the beginning that Archy is eager to join the war. After being turned down because he was underage, he goes to Perth, anxious for someone to accept him into the light horsemen. Frank, however, is skeptical about Australians wanting to join the war. He tells Archy that it's "not our war to fight". Despite this statement, Frank eventually joins up into the Infantry.

The first phase was the most deadly, with about 62 casualties every minutes. That amounts to a total of 13,000 casualties in just 3 hours and 30 minutes. It is said that at the end of this particular phase, people were stepping on bodies more than the ground, there were so many dead. Despite the quickly rising body count, no side seemed to be able to gain the upper hand. This back and forth

The Battle of Gallipoli was a battle that had great significance in World War One. The Battle of Gallipoli was a struggle that took place in World War One when British and Anzac forces tried to take a series of straits called the Dardanelles. The main purpose of this attack was to break through the straits, Eliminate The Ottoman Empire from the war, and get troops and supplies to the Eastern Front where Russia had been fighting Germany all by themselves. The first Allied troops to set foot at Gallipoli after a naval attack failure arrived on April 25, 1915. These troops will be the Allied side of the uphill battle for about 11 months, starting from the first bombardment. As the Battle of

When World War One erupted in the far flung corners of Europe in 1914, Australia had only recently achieved nationhood status. Britain decided to fulfil its role in the war, which meant that Australia, as a dominion of Britain, was required to join with them. One of the most famous battles in which Australia played a vital role in, was the Battle of Hamel. Australians led and fought this battle for only one purpose; to support their motherland. Australia played a vital role in the Battle of Hamel and this role was significant in the triumph of the battle.

World War I (1914-1918) was considered the 'Great War' and Australia’s Gallipoli campaign has always been considered as the pinnacle of the Australian military feats. This is due to the constant glorification of the event despite the fact it was an unmitigated failure. However, the work of the Australian army force in the most important battleground of WW1 the 'Western Front' is often cast under the shadow of Gallipoli. The battles on the Western Front took place in France, Belgium and parts of Germany and this is where some of the most pivotal battles were fought. The contribution and success of the Australians will be assessed through the analysis of several sources related to four major contributions related to the Western Front. These include the amount of Australians involved, the external opinions of Australia in the Western front, The Battle of

Anzac Day is one of Australia’s most important national commemorative occasions (Australian Army Goverment, 2018). On the 25th April 1915 at dawn, Anzac soldiers landed at the Gallipoli peninsular in turkey (Burke, 2000). Anzac Day marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War (Australian Army Goverment, 2018). The significant of Anzac Day is to remember and pay respect to all the soldiers who had the courage to serve for their country.

The 2nd Division took over from the 1st and mounted two further attacks - the first, on 29 July, was a costly failure; the second, on 2 August, resulted in the seizure of further German positions beyond the village. Again, the Australians suffered heavily from retaliatory bombardments. They were relieved on 6 August, having suffered 6,848 casualties.

‘Gallipoli’ is a movie directed by Peter Weir. It is set during World War 1 at the time that the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps was trying to take the Gallipoli Peninsula in the Ottoman Empire from 1914 to 1915. The story of ‘Gallipoli’ follows two young Australian men, Archy and Frank, as they travel from their homes in Western Australia to the harsh trenches of Gallipoli. The significance of the Gallipoli campaign was that it established an Australian image. An image of camaraderie and ‘mateship’.

Why did Australia go go to Gallipoli? What was the aim of the Dardanelles campaign?

“Damn the Dardanelles! They will be our grave!” So said Admiral Fisher, the Commander of the Royal Navy in a letter to Winston Churchill on April 5th, 1915. Fisher’s impassioned statement was to prove itself chillingly accurate in the disastrous military operation that followed. Following the Great War many military thinkers attempted to refine the principles of warfare to avoid the horrors of trench warfare, and military disasters such as the Gallipoli campaign. One of these thinkers was British military historian J.F.C Fuller, who developed nine principles of warfare to guide a well-orchestrated and successful military operation. In the following essay I will be applying these nine principles – mass, objective, offensive, simplicity, economy of force, manoeuvre, unity of command, security, and surprise - to the Gallipoli military operation to reveal the glaring flaws in Churchill’s original plan and in it’s execution by the Commanding Officers of the Allied forces. In December 1914 during a memorandum to the War Council, the year before the events in Gallipoli were to take place, Lloyd George (the Minister of Munitions) said “’Expeditions which are decided upon and organized with insufficient care generally end disastrously.” Indeed, this statement would prove true in Gallipoli – with over 250,000 Allied soldiers losing their lives on the battlefield by the time of the last evacuation on January 9th, 1916. It is widely accepted that Winston Churchill holds the most blame