Accession Number: A Accession Number: G Wounded coming down the valley G Accession Number: H Wounded arriving on a hospital ship H Other Australian casualty sources To what end did they die? Walker Lists officer casualties at Gallipoli. Anzac Memorial CD of 3rd ed.
Includes a roll of honour of 20, Australians who died in the war as well as photographs, poems, notes, diary entries, documents, speeches and an official summary of the peace treaty.
Please check with staff. Victoria's diggers: a history of each Victorian military unit which served overseas from This research guide devotes a paragraph to each unit, including information such as number of casualties, battle honours and titles of unit histories. For those in peril: a comprehensive listing of the ships and men of the Royal Australian Navy who have paid the supreme sacrifice in the wars of the 20th Century Includes all ships and navy men who were casualties in World War I.
Airmen died in the Great War, the roll of honour of the British and Commonwealth air services of the First World War, British Commonwealth air service deaths in the war. This includes Australians. The roll of honour Biographical record of members of His Majesty's naval and military forces who fell in the Great War The Jutland roll of honour Battle of Jutland, list of officers and ratings indexed alphabetically by surname. On microfiche.
Merchant shipping losses British merchant and fishing vessels captured or destroyed by the enemy ; also British merchant vessels damaged or molested by the enemy, but not sunk. Name, gross tonnage, date, position, and method of attack, cause of loss or escape and number of lives lost.
They had not been conscripted to join the campaign, they were all fair dinkum volunteers eager to show how brave and strong they were in battle. They had come to help their mother country England in their war against Germany. Little did they realise the hardships and suffering that lay ahead, for they had been landed at the wrong place and the Turkish army were prepared for them. Eight long months of bitter fighting against the Turks would follow.
Although their Gallipoli campaign would not result in victory over the Turks, the remarkable bravery and courage shown by the ANZACs during that time would long be remembered.
Stories such as their fierce attack at Lone Pine where they fought their way through the logs and mud into the Turkish trenches and battled the Turks with their bare hands, and reports of the terrible attack at the Nek where wave upon wave of ANZACs charged the Turkish lines to their certain death, would be told for generations to come. The courage of a stretcher bearer named Simpson who, with his donkey, risked bombs and bullets week after week to carry the wounded to safety only to finally lose his own life on the beach of ANZAC Cove, will never be forgotten.
The British government authorized the evacuation to begin from Suvla Bay on December 7; the last troops left Helles on January 9, In all, some , Allied forces took part in the Gallipoli Campaign, at a cost of more than , casualties, including some 46, dead.
On the Turkish side, the campaign also cost an estimated , casualties, with 65, killed. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. The Battle of the Somme, which took place from July to November , began as an Allied offensive against German forces on the Western Front and turned into one of the most bitter and costly battles of World War I. British forces suffered more than 57, casualties—including For four years, from to , World War I raged across Europe's western and eastern fronts, after growing tensions and then the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria ignited the war.
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