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April 25, 1915: on the beach at Anzac Cove, at Gallipoli, a photed post 100 years after this iconic event in Australian military history - AWM.
7090. Men resting among the dead and wounded, on the crowded beach at Anzac Cove. As the area remains congested, medics of ther Australian Army Medical Corps are tending some of the wounded. Elsewhere, members of the First Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train [RANBT] - a unique 300-man unit of engineers and wagon drivers , led by LCDR Leighton Bracegirdle of South Australia - were to distinguish themselves by landing in advance of the British forces at Suvla Bay on Aug. 6, 1915, and it would become the most decorated unit in the RAN. At the withdrawal of the Allied forces from the Peninsula in Dec. 1915, they would be the last to leave, remaining behind to complete the demolition of facilities.
While debate continues over whether the Anzac's were landed a mile, or up to two miles too far north, the precise position on the beach was never pinpointed on Allied plans of the little-known enemy shore, and navigation at night was difficult. British commanders were to claim that they were landed in the generlly correct area.
Photo: Australian War Memorial, AWM_PS1659-L.
April 25, 1915: on the beach at Anzac Cove, at Gallipoli, a photed post 100 years after this iconic event in Australian military history - AWM.
7090. Men resting among the dead and wounded, on the crowded beach at Anzac Cove. As the area remains congested, medics of ther Australian Army Medical Corps are tending some of the wounded. Elsewhere, members of the First Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train [RANBT] - a unique 300-man unit of engineers and wagon drivers , led by LCDR Leighton Bracegirdle of South Australia - were to distinguish themselves by landing in advance of the British forces at Suvla Bay on Aug. 6, 1915, and it would become the most decorated unit in the RAN. At the withdrawal of the Allied forces from the Peninsula in Dec. 1915, they would be the last to leave, remaining behind to complete the demolition of facilities.
While debate continues over whether the Anzac's were landed a mile, or up to two miles too far north, the precise position on the beach was never pinpointed on Allied plans of the little-known enemy shore, and navigation at night was difficult. British commanders were to claim that they were landed in the generlly correct area.
Photo: Australian War Memorial, AWM_PS1659-L.