by ATDW Import | Apr 13, 2023
A Turkish Lieutenant Colonel with piercing blue eyes and a powerful presence stepped forward as the Anzacs landed on Gallipoli, rallying his men to hold back the foreigners scrambling up the steep, gorse-covered hills. Mustafa Kemal, later to become known to the world...
by ATDW Import | Apr 13, 2023
Play Audio Jammed further north than intended, the 9th, 10th, and 11th Battalions of the 3rd Brigade became mixed up as they landed on the beach and headed up the hills. The official time Duncan Chapman stepped on to the beach was 4.28 am but timepieces had not been...
by Mitch Brunke | Feb 3, 2020
Chronicle, March 14. 1917: William Harold Wilson, who was accepted for active service yesterday, enlisted under most remarkable circumstances. When answering the question put to him by the enlisting officer, he stated there was not a person whom he could term his next...
by Mitch Brunke | Feb 3, 2020
Verdun – 1916 slaughter starts The battle of Verdun was one of the longest costly battles in World War I. As the Allies were planning to end the war with a massive summer assault in the Somme valley, the Germans on February 21 poured their might into a furious attack...
by Mitch Brunke | Feb 3, 2020
‘Casualties? What do I care about casualties?’ attributed to General Aylmer Hunter-Weston Two brigades of Australians and New Zealanders were taken from Anzac Cove to Helles for the Second Battle of Krithia on May 6. The First Battle of Krithia on April 28 had been a...
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