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There are some remarkable resources on the Internet relating to the Gallipoli Campaign, whether one is contemplating a visit to Turkey, wants general historical information, or else is searching for significantly more primary sources for historical research. In the preparation of these pages I have visited the following sites and recommend them all:
National Archives of Australia
http://www.naa.gov.au/
This is the outstanding site on the Internet for research of particular individuals who have fought for Australian Forces. Individual service records of each and every WW1 ANZAC combatant can be viewed, often running to 50 or 60 pages long. Much of it is the formal assemblage of forms and chits that service life seems always to accrue. But then occasionally there is the odd piece of personal correspondence from a parent or sister, or a quickly assembled list of a man’s possessions awaiting despatch back to a grieving family that cut back through ninety years in an instant and in which an individual life is found resonating and laid bare. Lest we forget.
On the home page go to Service Records, then WW1, then Name Search.
ANZAC
http://www.anzacs.net/
At Anzacs.net there is another remarkable collection of information and detailed, easily accessible material found virtually no where else on the Net. For research on these photographs, for example, I went to their “Gallipoli Graveyards” section: enter the website, then click on Gallipoli Graveyards. Here you can search for names and details of the fallen or for locations.
Digger History
http://www.diggerhistory.info/
This is another mine of information on Australian fighting forces in both World Wars. Clicking on Military History takes you into where you can enter the WW1 sections. There are copious Gallipoli pages within this, including sections on the Gallipoli graveyards that also look at other original graves and grave markers from Anzac.
Leaders of Anzacs
http://www.anzacs.org/
Excellent for Australian officers who served at Gallipoli, but also lists every headstone inscription for Anzacs with a known grave. There is also material on the 5th Light Horse Regiment.
Gallipoli Guide
http://www.anzac.govt.nz/gallipoliguide/
The NZ Government site with sections on the Gallipoli cemeteries listing details of all New Zealanders lost in the campaign.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
http://www.cwgc.org/admin/files/cwgc_gallipoli.pdf
An article on the Gallipoli campaign and its aftermath, including the problems faced by the Commission when it returned to the Peninsula after the war to reconstruct the cemeteries.
Mapping Gallipoli
http://www.awm.gov.au/gmaps/cemeteries/index.asp
The Australian War Memorial site which includes background on, for example, the mapping of three of the original Gallipoli cemeteries
Visiting Gallipoli
http://www.anzacsite.gov.au/
An educationally oriented site with significant and well set out general content.
Gallipoli 1915: The Drama of the Dardanelles
http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/2/gallipoli/navigate.htm
London’s Imperial War Museum’s site. I recommend Peter Hart’s article entitled Gallipoli: The Air War, which looks in detail at the work of the RNAS over the battlefield.
Slouch Hat Publications
http://www.slouch-hat.com.au/html/publications.htm
Where you can peruse some of the best titles on Australian military history including Ron Austin’s book on Jack Duffy: WHERE ANZACS SLEEP: The Gallipoli photos of Captain Jack Duffy - 8th Battalion.
About Me
- Trevor Henshaw
- I'm an architect. I was born in Australia but have lived and worked in London for almost 40 years. So I guess I am hooked on this great city. I've just re-written and re-published my revised and expanded "The Sky Their Battlefield 2" published by Fetubi Books, in 2014. It deals in great detail with the air war between 1914 - 1918, concentrating on the Allied air casualties and examining air activity on every day in every theatre of the conflict. It indexes and tells the stories of almost 17,000 Allied air personnel. It also links over 3,000 German air records to Allied events, and puts the air war into greater context with the ground war. Go and look at www.theskytheirbattlefield2.com to see more details! It's the result of over 30 years' hard work! Naturally I also have a wider interest in the military history of the Great War and I found Jack Duffy's amazing album in the 1990s in a shop in Melbourne. Its importance was immediately obvious and it was only a matter of technology and finding the time to start it that led to this blog.