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Section 1 – Landing:

Section 2 – Visiting:

Section 3 – Building:

Section 4 – Panels:

  • The Interpretative Panels at the Anzac Commemorative Site at North Beach on the Gallipoli Peninsula
    • As a focal point to enrich the experience of visitors, the Anzac Commemorative Site includes 10 large panels that tell the story of Gallipoli in 1915. In this section, you can view the photographs, read the text (in English and Turkish), view the original artworks or photographs from which the panels were created and investigate the history of their selection in more detail.
  • Interpretative Panel 1
    • Map of the Gallipoli Peninsula
  • Interpretative Panel 2
    • Anzac, the landing 1915 (detail) by George Lambert.
  • Interpretative Panel 3
    • Charge of the 2nd Infantry Brigade at Krithia (detail) by Charles Wheeler.
  • Interpretative Panel 4
    • A Turkish officer is led blindfolded through the Anzac lines to discuss a truce to bury the Turkish dead after the attack of 19 May 1915.
  • Interpretative Panel 5
    • Stretcher bearers carrying wounded at Anzac. The soldier on the left is carrying filled water bottles up to the front line.
  • Interpretative Panel 6
    • The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the Nek, 7 August 1915 (detail) by George Lambert.
  • Interpretative Panel 7
    • New Zealand soldiers rest in a trench during their assault towards Chunuk Bair on the night of 6 August 1915.
  • Interpretative Panel 8
    • Williams Pier, North Beach, Gallipoli, December 1915, with the Sphinx in the background. At this time the preparations for the evacuation of the Australian and New Zealand troops from Anzac were well under way.
  • Interpretative Panel 9
    • Turkish artillery on Gallipoli. Inset: Colonel Mustafa Kemal, one of the principal Turkish commanders at Gallipoli, later known as Ataturk – Father of the Turks. He was to become the first President of the Republic of Turkey.
  • Interpretative Panel 10
    • An Australian officer visits a comrade's grave on Gallipoli.

Section 5 – Researching:

  • Researching Gallipoli and Australians at war
    • This section explores the impact of the events at Gallipoli on the Australian people.
  • Three Timelines of Australians at Gallipoli and at War
    • These timelines enable you to quickly locate information and perspectives on significant dates in the history of Australian warfare, including 100 important events to do with Gallipoli, the role of the Australians in the Gallipoli campaign as well as Australia's involvement in war from 1901 to 2000 including World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam and through to the involvement in East Timor. (Requires the Shockwave plug-in).
    • Images of 1915: The Gallipoli experience produced a range of visual images from photographs to paintings and drawings.
  • The Drawings of Major LFS Hore
  • Images of 1915
    • Nurses at Gallipoli: For Australians, the image usually associated with 25 April, 1915 is that of Australian soldiers charging bravely up the steep and barren slopes of Gallipoli. Less appreciated is the picture of an Australian nurse on that same day attending to hundreds of battered and bleeding men on the decks and in the confined wards of a hospital ship. This section contains images and letters.
  • Nurses' Stories
    • Read about the role of the nurses at Gallipoli in 1915, the conditions in which they worked on hospital ships and on the islands of Lemnos and Imbros, what they endured and their feelings about service.
  • Photographs of the 3rd Australian General Hospital on Lemnos Island
    • Look through the amazing album of photographs taken by Dr A. W. Savage in 1915 which documents all aspects of the development of the 3rd Australian General Hospital on Lemnos Island. A visual chronicle of life and death.
  • Bravery Awards at Gallipoli
    • Victoria Crosses were awarded to nine soldiers at Gallipoli for acts of extreme heroism: Albert Jacka, William Symons, Leonard Keysor, John Hamilton, Albert Shout, William Dunstan, Alexander Burton, Frederick Tubb and Hugo Throssell. Read about the situations they faced in a campaign where ordinary men routinely performed extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice.
  • Submarines at Gallipoli
  • Gallipoli and the Australian Home front
    • The distant conflict of the Great War, as World War I was known at the time, had an enormous effect on Australia, a small nation of fewer than 5 million people at the time. The war had a major impact on everyone in some way. It helped bring about economic change. Political events became bitter and controversial. Reputations were made and lost.
    • Through it all, Australians responded to the call to enlist and went to fight. Their story is an important part of understanding the history of Australia and its people in the 20th century.
    • Anzac: a National Heirloom
      • The Gallipoli campaign made the word 'Anzac' instantly recognisable throughout Australia and New Zealand. From 1915, individuals, organisations and businesses began to use the word for a variety of purposes. In the collections of the National Archives of Australia there are many files dealing with applications to use the word Anzac or to copyright material associated with Gallipoli and the remembrance of the campaign.
    • Gallipoli and a Country Town: Yass
      • Explores the individual stories of two men Roy Denning and Wilfred Emmott Addison who came from the town of Yass in country New South Wales to fight (and in Addison's case, to die) at Gallipoli in 1915. Roy Denning's letters to his mother from Gallipoli and Addison's anticipation of his own death are moving testaments to the tragedy and futility of war.

Section 6 – Teaching: