THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918
THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN 1915

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With World War I stalled on the Western Front by 1915,
the Allied Powers were debating going on the offensive in another region of the conflict,
rather than continuing with attacks in Belgium and France.
Early that year,
Russia’s Grand Duke Nicholas appealed to Britain for
aid in confronting a Turkish invasion in the Caucasus.
(The Ottoman Empire had entered World War I on the side of the Central Powers,
Germany and Austria-Hungary, by November 1914.)
In response,
the Allies decided to launch a naval expedition to seize the Dardanelles Straits,
a narrow passage connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Turkey.
If successful,
capture of the straits would allow the Allies to link up with the Russians in the Black Sea,
where they could work together to knock Turkey out of the war.

The Gallipoli Campaign of 1915-16,
also known as the Battle of Gallipoli or the Dardanelles Campaign,
was an unsuccessful attempt by the Allied Powers
to control the sea route from Europe to Russia during World War I.
The campaign began with a failed naval attack by British
and French ships on the Dardanelles Straits in February-March 1915
and continued with a major land invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25,
involving British and French troops as well as divisions of the Australian
and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC).
Lack of sufficient intelligence and knowledge of the terrain,
along with a fierce Turkish resistance,
hampered the success of the invasion.
By mid-October,
Allied forces had suffered heavy casualties and had made little headway
from their initial landing sites. Evacuation began in December 1915,
and was completed early the following January.

The Gallipoli campaign was a costly failure for the Allies,
with an estimated 27,000 French,
and 115,000 British and dominion troops
(Great Britain and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand,
India, and Newfoundland) killed or wounded.
Over half these casualties (73,485) were British and Irish troops.
Australian casualties for the Gallipoli campaign amounted to 26,111,
comprising of 1,007 officers and 25,104 other ranks.

New Zealand suffered around 8000 killed and wounded.

The Ottoman Empire paid a heavy price for their victory:
an estimated 250,000 Turkish and Arab troops were killed or wounded defending Gallipoli.





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