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WORLD WAR 1
WORLD WAR 2
OTHER
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MAIN SITES VISITED ON THE ITINERARIES
Batteries, Forts: Cimenlik; Dardanos; Ertugrul;
Hamidiye; Kilitbahir; Kumkale; Lancashire Landing;
Mesudiye; Seddulbahir; V Beach
Beaches:
ANZAC Cove; Kumkale; North Beach; S Beach;
Suvla Bay; V Beach; W Beach; X Beach;
Y Beach;
Cemeteries: Beach; French,
Morto Bay; Haidar Pasha, Istanbul; Lancashire
Landing; Lone Pine; Morto Bay French; Nek, the;
Turkish - various; Twelve Trees Copse; V Beach
Memorials:; Chunuk Bair New Zealand; Helles
to the Missing; Lone Pine Australian; Turkish
- Ari Burnu, Chunuk Bair, Helles,
Museums:
Bigali Atarturk's House; Canakkale Naval; Gabatepe
Info Centre; Istanbul Military; Krithia
Towns,
Villages: Canakkale; Bulair; Eceabat; Gelibolu;
Helles; Krithia; |
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CONTENTS
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- How to use this guide
- Historical Summary
- Approach Route
- Itinerary One: Helles and Krithia
- Itinerary Two: Anzac Coastline
- Itinerary Three: Sari Bair Ridge
- Itinerary Four: Suvla
- Itnerary Five: the Asian Side
- Allied & Turkish Wargraves, Commemorative
& Conservation Associations
- Indexes: Forces, Forts, General, Guns, Memorials,
Museums,
VC Winners , War Cemeteries
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Major
& Mrs Holt's Battlefield Guide to Gallipoli
The fourth in the Holts' important series of Battlefield
guides (following the Somme, the Ypres Salient
and the Normandy Landing Beaches) this is so much
more than a guidebook (of which it is the most
up-to-date, comprehensive, ever produced). It
is the book of the Gallipoli Peninsula.
It charts in fascinating detail what happened
at every recommended stop and brings alive, with
cameos and anecdotes, the people who fought there:
leaders, heroes, historic regiments, poets,
'Tommy', 'Digger' and 'Johnnie Turk'.
- … here lies Doughty-Wylie VC
- … here Simpson worked with 'Murphy' the
donkey
- … here the Sandringham Battalion of the
Norfolks disappeared
- … here the Australian Light Horse were decimated
at the Nek
- … here lay the latter-day Trojan Horse,
the SS River Clyde
- … here Atarturk's watch stopped a fatal
bullet
It
includes:
- Approach Route from Istanbul
- Allied and Turkish Memorial/Museums, preserved
trenches and guns
- Allied and Turkish war cemeteries
- Information on Allied and Turkish War Graves
Associations
- Information on Allied Commemorative Associations
- Historical background to the Dardanelles
Campaign
- History of the Dardanelles area before and
after the Great War
- Useful tourist information
- Full colour illustrations throughout
Packaged
with and Map References throughout to MAJOR
& MRS HOLT'S BATTLE MAP OF GALLIPOLI
This detailed and unique fully indexed, 4 colour,
double-sided map shows modern roads, the Allied
and Turkish battle lines, contours and features
of WW1 interest in the area - Memorials, Museums,
Shipwrecks, War Cemeteries, Guns, Forts |
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Sinking of the Bouvet. The French ship, which
went down with the loss of all hands on 18 March
1915, was probably hit by one of the ingenious
floating mines from Canakkale. The rails along
which they were propelled can be seen at the Naval
Museum in Canakkale. |
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Man with the Shell. Cpl Seyit carried the
last 275 kilogram shell to his battery when 61
of his comrades were killed by Allied Naval shells
on 18 March 1918. The shell hit the battleship
Ocean which later sank. Seyit's statue was erected
in 1929. |
Well on Gully Beach
Gully Beach remains completely unspoilt, much
as it was during the Landings in April 1915. The
well was dug by Joseph Murray of the Hood Battalion,
RND on 21 July to supply water to the Division.
It stands near the entrance to the infamous Gully
Ravine. |
View from Walker's Ridge to Ari Burnu & North
Beach.
To the left is the distinctive outline of
the Sphinx and the dramatic and rugged gullies
lead down to Ari Burnu and North Beach. The landings
of 25 April were made just out of sight on the
left in the tiny bay which has been renamed Anzac
Cove.
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Beach CWGC Cemetery and Headstone of Pte J. Simpson.
Simpson's full name was John Simpson Kirkpatrick.
He was born in South Shields and emigrated to
Australia in 1909 enlisting on 25 August 1914.
After the landings he plied up and down the dangerous
Shrapnel Gully with a donkey he called Murphy,
bringing down the wounded for medical treatment
until he himself was killed on 19 May. |
Lone Pine Cemetery with Headstone of Driver Bergin
A pine tree grown from a seed of the original
pine stands in this cemetery where over 1,150
Australians are buried. The message on Driver
Bergin's headstone reads, 'A mother's thoughts
often wander to this sad and lonely grave'.
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illustrations like these in the book. |
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