In the Researching section…
- Timelines – Australians at Gallipoli and at War
- Images from 1915
- The Gallipoli Watercolours and Drawings of Major LFS Hore
- Nurses' Stories
- Lemnos Island and the photograph album of Private A W Savage
- Bravery – The Victoria Cross and Anzac
- Anzac – a national heirloom: Applications to use the word 'Anzac'
- Gallipoli and a Country Town – Yass: The moving story of two men who served at Gallipoli
More detail below…
Timelines – Australians at Gallipoli and at War
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The timeline Australians at Gallipoli and at War enables you to quickly locate information and perspectives on significant dates in the history of Australian warfare, including 100 important events at 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 through to the recent involvement in East Timor. (Requires the Shockwave plug-in).
Images from 1915
In comparison to today's technology, cameras were large, clumsy and expensive in 1915. It did not help that commanders did not like war correspondents, journalists and artists looking over their shoulders. Despite this, there are large numbers of official and unofficial visual records of the Gallipoli campaign. View a selection of interesting images that record these historic events.
The Gallipoli Watercolours and Drawings of Major LFS Hore: Hundreds of soldiers in Gallipoli recorded their experiences in diaries and letters. Major Hore, however, recorded his sense of Gallipoli in drawings using at different times ink, pencil, wash and watercolour. Hore's drawings reveal a personal view of Gallipoli through the eyes of a man sensitive to the beauty and drama of his surroundings and the tragedy of war. These works have lain largely unseen in the Mitchell Library since 1919.
In Images you can view a selection of images of Gallipoli including scenes as they were when photographed in 1915 and as they appear today. Also in the selection are detailed looks at two famous paintings depicting major events at Gallipoli – "Anzac, The Landing 1915" and "The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the Nek, 7 August 1915"
Nurses at Gallipoli
Every night there are two or three deaths, sometimes five or six; its just awful flying from one ward into another … each night is a nightmare, the patients’ faces all look so pale with the flickering ship’s lights.
[Ella Tucker, in Jan Bassett, Guns and Brooches, p.44]
In the section 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.
In Lemnos, look through the amazing photograph album of Private A W Savage. These photographs document the life of the 3rd Australian General Hospital during its time at Lemnos Island in 1915. A visual chronicle of life and death.
For Valour – The Victoria Cross and Anzac
I cannot write of details but many of our brave boys were blown to pieces.
[[Lieutenant Frederick Tubb VC, 4th Battalion AIF, Lone Pine, Gallipoli, 9 August 1915]
The Victoria Cross, the highest award for bravery in battle in the old British Empire and Dominions, was awarded to eleven soldiers in the Anzac area of Gallipoli between April and December 1915. Nine were gained by members of the Australian Imperial Force – Lance-Corporal Albert Jacka, Lance-Corporal Leonard Keysor, Lieutenant William Symons, Private John Hamilton, Captain Alfred Shout, Corporal William Dunstan, Corporal Alexander Burton, Lieutenant Frederick Tubb and Second-Lieutenant Hugo Throssell. One VC went to a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Corporal Cyril Bassett and one to Englishman Lance-Corporal Walter Parker. Discover how these eleven men earned the Victoria Cross for their extraordinary acts of courage.
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 impact on
Australia, then a nation of fewer than five million people. The
war affected 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. In Anzac – a national heirloom, you can look at some of the applications that Australians made, from requests to name their children and homes 'Anzac' to songs, photographs, cards, designs and product names.
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.
