Australians at War 1901-2000
1915
15 May 1915
Death on Gallipoli of Major General W T Bridges, Commander of the First Division, AIF. Bridge's body was returned to Australia, and buried in the grounds of the Royal Military College, Duntroon.
19 May 1915
Australians repelled major Turkish attack on their positions at Gallipoli.
Acronym ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) used to describe Australian positions at Gallipoli.
Death on Gallipoli of Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick of 'Simpson and his Donkey' fame.
19–20 May 1915
Lance Corporal Albert Jacka, 14th Battalion, AIF, became the first Australian to win the Victoria Cross in World War One for his action at Gallipoli, Turkey.
24 May 1915
Formal truce on Gallipoli during which the Turkish soldiers who died in the attacks of May were buried.
6 August 1915
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- Australian in captured Turkish trenches at Lone Pine,Gallipoli, 6 August 1915.
[AWM negative A02022]
6–9 August 1915
Battle of Lone Pine, Gallipoli – Australians were awarded seven Victoria Crosses.
21 October 1915
Vera Deakin, daughter of ex-Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, established the Australian Red Cross Missing and Wounded Enquiry Bureau in Cairo, Egypt. During the remainder of the war the Bureau handled thousands of enquiries from Australian families seeking information about wounded and missing soldiers.
