Letters and Stories
Read the stories of the brave men and women who went to war
and their connection to the region.
These continual frontal attacks
Two brigades of Australians and New Zealanders were taken from Anzac Cove to Helles for the Second Battle.
Turkish tenacity and a brilliant leader
A Turkish Lieutenant Colonel with piercing blue eyes and a powerful presence stepped forward as the Anzacs landed.
The Turkish Offensive
Turkish May offensive: The Man with the Donkey dies and another legend is born.
Futile charges in no man's land
Indecisive battles along entrenchments on the Western Front continued in 1915
A bleak winter looms
After the heat, hundreds freeze to death in trenches. ‘It has been snowing all day and my hands are like blocks of wood
British Army Graveyard Kindermord
The first battle of Ypres began on October 20, 1914, near the end of the Race for the Sea.
Sooner to be back at old Pialba
‘ … would sooner be … at old Pialba with the tent and fishing line … catching whiting.’
On the loss of your son James
Dernancourt, a village on the River Ancre in France, was the scene of desperate fighting during the German offensive.
Hamel
Hamel was a small town but its capture by the Australians inspired the Allies on the Western Front.