Gallipoli Landings

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Using converted landing barges to disembark horses at Gallipoli in 1915.

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Last Gallipoli warships hosts ANZAC Day service to honour Commonwealth dead

You can join Australian and New Zealand military personnel on the most sacred day in their calendar with a unique ANZAC Day commemoration in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Personnel from the two Commonwealth states’ armed forces have been invited to mark Thursday April 25 with a service on board the sole surviving ship from the campaign which gave birth to the ANZAC legend.

Monitor HMS M33 – today a museum ship in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard – once pounded Turkish positions on the Gallipoli peninsula during the failed Dardanelles campaign of 1915-16.

Troops of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps – shortened to ANZAC – were landed on the western shore of the peninsula and doggedly forged a beachhead against determined Turkish defenders at a site which became known as ANZAC Cove.

In the years since, a dawn service on April 25 has marked what has become known as ANZAC Day.

You won’t have to rise as early if you wish to attend the commemorations on M33 – proceedings aboard the veteran warship begin at 10.30am.

The monitor will be flying the national standards of Australia, New Zealand, Turkey and the UK – echoing the sentiments of reconciliation and friendship of post-WW1 leader Kemal Atatürk: “There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets…”

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Ministry of Defence
Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP
This ANZAC day we join our allies in remembering the sacrifice of those from Australia and New Zealand that gave everything in the service of our collective freedom and to celebrate the enduring friendship and cooperation which keeps each of our nations safe.
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