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Baptism by fire
The formation of the Anzacs
Source A
Sea of
Gallipoli
Marmara s GALLIPOLI lle PENINSULA ne da r Sari Bair
Da
Aegean Sea
SUVLA BAY
BRITISH
ANZAC COVE
ANZAC
LANDING
N
Lone Pine
TURKEY
Krithia
BRITISH
FRENCH
Page 40
Cape Helles
Kum Kale
EXTENT OF ALLIED ADVANCE
The Gallipoli Peninsula showing military positions in 1915.
Source B
Bullets were thumping into us in the rowing boat. Men were being hit and killed all around me …
The Turks had machine-guns sweeping the strip of beach where we landed. There were many dead already when we got there … and wounded men were screaming for help. We couldn’t stop for them.
From A Fortunate Life, by Albert Facey,
1981.
Source C
Like lightning they leapt ashore … so vigorous was the onslaught that the Turks made no attempt to withstand it and fled from ridge to ridge pursued by Australian infantry. A description of the landing by Sir Ian
Hamilton in The Anzac Book, 1975.
Most Australians greeted the outbreak of the war with enthusiasm.
The Labor Party leader Andrew Fisher expressed the views of most
Australians when he pledged that Australia would back Britain ‘to the last man and the last shilling’. Volunteers rushed to enlist and go to battle, believing that war was a noble adventure, that men should be willing to fight and die for the British Empire, and that the war might be over in six weeks. The volunteers were organised into the
Australian Imperial Force (AIF). By December 1914 the first 20 000 soldiers of the AIF were training in Egypt. There, with 10 000 New
Zealanders, they were reorganised into the Australian and New
Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC).
The Gallipoli Campaign
The first action of the Anzacs was not on the Western Front in
France and Belgium where most British troops were fighting. Instead they were to form a crucial part of a campaign against Germany’s ally,
Turkey. The strategy was based on Winston Churchill’s argument that an attack
2.4
7/9/04
10:08 PM
Baptism by fire
The formation of the Anzacs
Source A
Sea of
Gallipoli
Marmara s GALLIPOLI lle PENINSULA ne da r Sari Bair
Da
Aegean Sea
SUVLA BAY
BRITISH
ANZAC COVE
ANZAC
LANDING
N
Lone Pine
TURKEY
Krithia
BRITISH
FRENCH
Page 40
Cape Helles
Kum Kale
EXTENT OF ALLIED ADVANCE
The Gallipoli Peninsula showing military positions in 1915.
Source B
Bullets were thumping into us in the rowing boat. Men were being hit and killed all around me …
The Turks had machine-guns sweeping the strip of beach where we landed. There were many dead already when we got there … and wounded men were screaming for help. We couldn’t stop for them.
From A Fortunate Life, by Albert Facey,
1981.
Source C
Like lightning they leapt ashore … so vigorous was the onslaught that the Turks made no attempt to withstand it and fled from ridge to ridge pursued by Australian infantry. A description of the landing by Sir Ian
Hamilton in The Anzac Book, 1975.
Most Australians greeted the outbreak of the war with enthusiasm.
The Labor Party leader Andrew Fisher expressed the views of most
Australians when he pledged that Australia would back Britain ‘to the last man and the last shilling’. Volunteers rushed to enlist and go to battle, believing that war was a noble adventure, that men should be willing to fight and die for the British Empire, and that the war might be over in six weeks. The volunteers were organised into the
Australian Imperial Force (AIF). By December 1914 the first 20 000 soldiers of the AIF were training in Egypt. There, with 10 000 New
Zealanders, they were reorganised into the Australian and New
Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC).
The Gallipoli Campaign
The first action of the Anzacs was not on the Western Front in
France and Belgium where most British troops were fighting. Instead they were to form a crucial part of a campaign against Germany’s ally,
Turkey. The strategy was based on Winston Churchill’s argument that an attack