The Gallipoli Landing and the first ANZAC Day
23 April 2009 by Annette Gaykema. From the collection, News, Personal Stories, ANZAC Cove, ANZAC Day, Commemoration, Gallipoli. Comments (2)
As we ready ourselves to commemorate ANZAC Day at the Australian War Memorial, we can gain a small insight what it was like at the Gallipoli landing. Personal diaries held by the Memorial describe what it was like landing at Gallipoli on Sunday, 25 April 1915 under the heavy fire of Turkish machine guns. Although the photos accompanying this blog post do not relate directly to the diary entries, they are able to illustrate the stories in a different way.
Sergeant Apcar de Vine of the 4th Battalion writes: “landed myself at … midday under a hot shrapnell [sic] fire, all landed safely…
