For The Simpson prize essay, we had to answer the question “The landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 is often given prominence in accounts of the Gallipoli campaign. What other events or experiences of the campaign would you argue require more attention?” to which my answer is that the events during Gallipoli are ALL important, and ALL needed to be given more attention. The aim of the landings was to capture the Turkish forts commanding the narrow straits. French forces attacked the Turkish positions on the Asia Minor side of the Dardanelles as a diversion and later landed and took over part of the Helles frontline alongside the British. Later reinforcements included the dismounted Australian and New Zealand Mounted Brigades at Anzac Cove. In August, a new British corps landed at Suvla Bay, to the north of …show more content…
Periscopes, cooking equipment, board games, and stationery from what they found around them, all of which would put MacGyver to shame, making me truly believe more than just the unemployed had enlisted, honestly, who would have thought of making a grenade out of a jam tin, definitely not me, that’s for sure. Though the saddest part about the Gallipoli campaign was how only one soldier’s dead body had returned back to Australia. The body of Major-General Sir William Throsby Bridges, commander of the 1st Australian Division, who died of wounds received on Gallipoli on 15 May 1915, was buried in the grounds of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in Canberra. Bridges was the first commandant of Duntroon and he was the only Australian soldier who died overseas in the two world wars whose body was returned home during the course of the war. Though the reasons may have not been good, the Armistice created by the Turkish on 19 may, 1915 was, allowing both sides to bury their dead and recover, and in those few short moments, peace existed, with both sides treating each other the same, exchanging cigarettes and