Gallipoli Timeline - History, 2023 November by Danielle Tan

20 December 1915 - Evacuation

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The evacuation was not sudden. It was slow and drawn out. The Turks could not be alerted of their retreat and everything of value had to be taken back or destroyed.

18 March 1915

2026tan — 2023-10-30 02:51:12 UTC

Failed attempt by British-French fleet to breach Ottoman defences, brings realisation that naval forces were unlikely to cause a surrender, bringing the idea of using infantry to attack shore-based defences (Gallipoli)

20 Janurary 1916

2026tan — 2023-10-30 02:52:10 UTC

Evacuation from Gallipoli is completed.

Soldiers are either redeployed in other locations, or sent back to Egypt for training.

November 1915

2026tan — 2023-10-30 02:52:30 UTC

Evacuation is suggested by Lord Kitchener, the British chief of staff

10 August 1914 - Recruitment

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Recruiting offices opened at army barracks around Australia

1 September to 9 December 1914

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Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) seized German New Guinea and nearby German-ruled island territories.

1 November 1914 - Departure from Australia

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The first convoy of the AIF and the New Zealand Expeditionary Force departed by boat from Albany and Fremantle in Western Australia to Europe

3 December 1914 - Arrival in Egypt

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Units of the AIF began disembarking in Egypt. They were sent to Mena Camp where training commenced. It had been decided to hold the Australians and New Zealanders in Egypt because proper camps in England were not ready to receive them.

1 April 1915 - Anzac recieves oder to leave Egypt

2026tan — 2023-11-07 02:58:21 UTC

The Anzac Corps in Egypt received orders that it was to move to the front.

25 April 1915 - Gallipoli Landing

2026tan — 2023-11-07 03:02:12 UTC

Gallipoli campaign starts when Allied forces land on the Gallipoli peninsula in Ottoman Türkiye

Between 4:30am and 4:45am, the 3rd Australian Brigade — 9th (Queensland), 10th (South Australia), 11th (Western Australia) and 12th (Tasmania, with some South Australia and Western Australia) Battalions and the 3rd Field Ambulance - landed on Gallipoli around Ari Burnu point. The rest of the Anzacs came ashore throughout the day. By the evening, despite strong Turkish counter-attacks, the Anzacs held a narrow triangle of land roughly 2km long at its base on the coast and extending to just under 1km inland at its widest.

Charles Bean, Australia's Official Correspondent during the war who went on to become Australia's Official Historian of the war, said that all the evidence available indicated that the first Australian ashore at Gallipoli was Lieutenant Duncan Chapman of the 9th Battalion (Queensland), from Brisbane. Chapman survived the Gallipoli Campaign, but he was killed in action at Pozières in France on 8 August 1916.

At 4:30am troops of the British 29th Division began landing at beaches on Cape Helles at the tip of the Gallipoli peninsula while further north Australian troops landed at Ari Burny. French forces launched a feint against Kum Kale on the Dardanelles southern shore. By the end of the day, strong Turkish counter-attacks confined the British to two small pockets of land on the tip of the peninsula at Cape Helles and the Anzacs - the New Zealanders landed later in the day - to a strip of rugged country overlooking Ari Burnu. Both sides suffered heavy casualties.

Sourced from --> https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/ww1/where-australians-served/gallipoli/timeline#0

August, 1915 - August Offense

2026tan — 2023-11-07 03:03:58 UTC

During the nights of 3 to 5 August, an extra 20,000 soldiers of the British 13th Division were secretly brought ashore at Anzac for the proposed August Offensive.

The main objectives of the August Offensive were to capture two peaks on the Sari Bair Range - Chunuk Bair and Hill 971

More info at. --> https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/wars-and-missions/ww1/where-australians-served/gallipoli/timeline#0

12 April 1915 - ANZAC arrival as Lemnos Island

2026tan — 2023-11-10 05:38:04 UTC

(Some sources state the ANZAC started arriving on the 4th of March)

Units of the Anzac Corps began arriving on Lemnos.

--> Not at Gallipoli, but preparing to attack

Approximately 100km from the Gallipoli peninsula, Australians landed at Lemnos.

(The Greek Island of Lemnos, which was provided as a base for Australian and New Zealand forces for hospitals, supplies and refuge.)

Location of arrival:

3rd Australian Infantry Brigade - 9th (Queensland), 10th (South Australia), 11th (Western Australia) and 12th (Tasmania, with some South Australia and Western Australia) battalions
1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station
3rd Field Ambulance
part of the Australian Field Bakery

They were to become part of an occupation force if the British Royal Navy succeeded in capturing the forts along the Dardanelles.