Why Was Gallipoli Important In Australia

The Gallipoli campaign serves great importance in Australia’s history. The campaign lasted 9 months, from April 1915 – January 1916 resulting in 8159 deaths of Australian men (AWM, 2016). The landing at Gallipoli receives global recognition annually, celebrating and mourning the 25th of April as it was the introduction of the Great War to many Australian soldiers, who all suffered mental or physical wounds. The Landing will naturally receive the most recognition, as the ANZAC troops came immensely close to infiltrating the enemy line. They would have succeeded had not a small group of Turkish soldiers defended the Peninsula single handily while waiting for reinforcements to arrive. 860 Australians died throughout the first five days of the Gallipoli campaign, an unnecessarily high toll. Although the landing at Gallipoli understandably receives the most recognition as it is one of the biggest moments in Australian history, three specific events deserve far more recognition. The Armistice, an event during the campaign in which both armies held a nine hour truce, the Battle of Lone Pine and the Battle of the Nek, two major battles throughout August where in total over

The battle was intended as a distraction by the ANZAC’s to breakout from the original ANZAC perimeter of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971. The battle, or assault rather, began on August the 6th, 1915. The battle of Lone Pine was a part of a plan called the “August Offensive” in which throughout August, different attacks were planned hoping for the ANZAC’s to achieve nothing less than victory, pushing the Turkish forces backwards and clearing the path for the British soldiers to successfully invade the