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World War I: Reports Of The Gallipoli Campaign

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Reports of the Gallipoli campaign
Introduction
The first world war was during 1914-1918 and started because of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Australia had joined the war when their ally, Britain, declared war over Germany on the 4th of August 1914. On the 11th of September 1914, the ANMEF----------- landed on Rabaul and later took possession of German New Guinea, which was also known as Australia’s first significant action in the war. When the AIF ---------landed on Gallipoli, Turkey on the 25th of April 1915, it began the Gallipoli campaign which ended with an evacuation that began in December of 1915. Majority of reports on the Gallipoli campaign are accurate; however, it is not certain that all are accurate because there …show more content…

This essay will be discussing the accuracy of the reports on the Gallipoli campaign by comparing the facts and opinions stated by the reports.
The majority of the Gallipoli campaign was accurately reported due to the fact that all the reports state the same information. For example, a photograph taken by Philip Schuler during 1915 of a trench after battle at the Lone Pine area in Gallipoli featuring Captain Leslie Morshead, Private James Brown Bryant and other soldiers, some dead on the parapet, was taken as a memory of the battle from the perspective of a solider that was a part of the Gallipoli campaign, for the general public (Schuler, 1915). In this image, the soldiers are seen as tough, brutal, and ready to fight and from their facial expressions and body language as none of them are smiling and some are frowning at the dead bodies which is understandable due to what they were experiencing. This shows that the soldiers’ experience of the Gallipoli Campaign was unpleasant as many of them died and were unhappy due to the battle. The letter, (Murdoch, 1915),

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