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Survey and Mapping ANZAC Sector Gallipoli Peninsula 1915. 25 April 1915 – ANZAC started campaign in surprise predawn attack mid-Gallipoli Peninsula. Stopped less than 2 miles from Z Beach – field commanders recommended withdrawl. British and French attack south at Cape Helles faired no better.
There are over 300 usable maps of Gallipoli and the surrounding area in the TrenchMapper collection, currently just 70 are georeferenced and available online but all 300+ will eventually appear.
Map of the Anzac area on Gallipoli from April to December 1915. This map shows the general topography inland from Anzac Cove and North Beach, an area that was approximately 8km north to south and 6km west to east. Kabatepe is the most southern and western point on the map. Hill 60 is the most northern point.
Maps of the Battleground of Gallipoli (Gelibolu) and the Dardanelles: A Turkish View provides a rich guide to the maps of the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign theater and its environs.
- Egypt
- Landing at Suvla Bay
- Trench Warfare
- Caribou Hill
- Evacuation
The Newfoundland Regiment embarked from Devonport, England on August 20 and arrived at Alexandria, Egypt on September 1. It then travelled by train to Cairo. The men spent two weeks in Egypt, acclimating to the stifling heat they would encounter at Gallipoli and changing into lighter uniforms. On September 14, they set sail for Suvla Bay. Most of t...
The Regiment's 1,076 men landed on the shores of the Dardanelles at about 3 a.m. on September 20, 1915. They came under immediate fire from Turkish troops. Private Francis Lind wrote about his first day at Gallipoli for the Daily News: Lance-Corporal John Gallishaw also described the heavy enemy fire in his book, Trenching at Gallipoli: "It was the...
By September 30, the Newfoundland Regiment had taken responsibility for a 1.5-kilometre stretch of the British front line. Its trenches lay just 50 metres from the Turkish lines, and they jutted out at an angle that exposed the men to enemy fire from two sides. "After the first forty-eight hours we settled down to regular trench warfare," Gallishaw...
Despite the dangers and squalor of trench warfare, the Regiment won its first battle honours at Gallipoli. On the night of November 4, Lieutenant James Donnelly led seven men to a ridge held by Turkish snipers. They fought off three snipers and held the area until reinforcements arrived the following morning. The ridge was renamed Caribou Hill in t...
In the end, the Allied forces could not wrestle control of Suvla Bay from the Turkish Army and evacuated the area between December 18, 1915 and January 9, 1916. The Newfoundland Regiment lost its final man at Gallipoli one day before the withdrawl was complete. Private Anthony Stacey described the fatality in his memoirs: "The evening of January 8t...
Gallipoli invasion map. You can also download a hi-res copy as a pdf (4 mbs). This map shows the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula, now part of modern-day Türkiye, in April 1915.
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As 'TrenchMapper' expands, we have made a small start on the maps of the Gallipoli campaign. The following are examples of some of those that have been geo-referenced so far - but with more to come. Above: A montage of aerial photos of ANZAC Cove and Gaba Tepe (in 1916)
