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Gallipoli 2015

This year the ANZAC Day Dawn Service at Gallipoli commemorated the centenary of the landing there of the Australian and New Zealand Imperial Expeditionary Forces at ANZAC Cove on the 25th April 1915.

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Janis Papanicolaou · 28 August 2015 · # · Comment


Hill 60 and the lost 18th: Aug. 27, 1915

In the words of historian Peter Hart

These were pointless attacks and if they typified any British trait it was a lunatic persistence in the face of the obvious.

Survivors of the Australian 13th, 14th & 18th Btn’s attack on the 22nd, joined into 4th Brigade for a 2nd attempt on Hill 60. Again they were joined by the NZ Mounted Rifles, 9th and 10th Australian Light Horse, Connaught Rangers, Ghurka Riflemen, Welsh Borderers and New Hampshires. The battle lasted into the night as both sides struggled desperately - and paid dearly.

Cigarette card, ‘Hot Trench Work’ State Library of NSW

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Darragh Christie · 27 August 2015 · # · Comment


Hill 60 and the lost 18th: Aug. 22, 1915

The 18th Battalion volunteers — raised mainly from the Sydney area, including Mosman — were described as ‘great big cheery fellows, whom it did your heart good to see.’ Within 48 hours of landing at Gallipoli, 50% of them were either dead or wounded. A few days later 80% of the 760 men who started the battle had become casualties.

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Darragh Christie · 22 August 2015 · # · · Comment


Remembering Major T.H. Redford, at The Nek


George W Lambert
Cartoon for ‘The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the Nek’

One hundred years ago Light Horse regiments attacked well-entrenched Turkish positions at “The Nek.” Their fate — charging into certain death — lives large in the Australian psyche. Among those killed that day was Major Thomas Harold Redford of Holt Avenue, Mosman.

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Darragh Christie · 9 August 2015 · # · · Comment [1]


The death of a gallant and erudite soldier


Studio portrait of Major General Sir William Bridges KCB CMG. Photographer: Alice Mills, Melbourne. (AWM A02867)

“Anyhow, I have commanded an Australian Division for nine months…”

We can only surmise as to the mental processes of Maj. General Bridges as he slipped in and out of consciousness. He may have remembered his life experiences and those closest to him, memories of time spent with his family and friends around Sydney’s foreshores, in particular his posting to Middle Head.

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Darragh Christie · 19 May 2015 · # · · Comment


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