V Beach, Gallipoli
Turkish memorial near V Beach
Suvla Bay, site of the landings of August 1915
A soldier’s diary, 1915
The naval bombardment, from a French magazine of 1915
Today there is still plenty of evidence of the gruelling trench warfare at Gallipoli
Looking west to Suvla Bay
Looking east towards Helles
The Lancashire Fusiliers on their way to the landings of 25th April 1915
The King’s Own Scottish Borderers at the Third Battle of Krithia, 4th June 1915
Just after sunset at Helles, the southern tip of the Gallipoli peninsula
The Gallipoli peninsula on a 1915 map produced for the public at home
The Dardanelles Strait looking east towards Asia
Atatürk’s famous speech of reconciliation at Ari Burnu
Gallipoli Centenary
Education Project
The Gallipoli campaign was fought in a quiet corner of Turkey, but made the Great War into a World War. Today, people look back at the costly campaign with very different feelings – pride, shame, anger, sorrow – depending on which country they live in. Through this exciting educational project, schools from all over the world are sharing their stories. Join our conversation!
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Recent Blog Posts
Watch the film of our project
As the Gallipoli Centenary Education Project draws to a close we are delighted to present a film which captures so many of its successes. The 12-minute film records the conference which we held in March 2016 but goes much further than that, highlighting the real impact of the project across the U.K….
British schools welcome Australian visitor
After inviting Kobi Watson to speak at our conference, we arranged for him to visit two of the schools we have been working with. This is his account of the trip. Straight after the conference I made my way down to Gosport with Connie and Jake from Bay…
Australia meets Britain meets Ireland meets Turkey at our conference
16 year old Kobi Watson travelled from Melbourne, Australia to speak at our conference in Birmingham. Here he tells us more: Students and teachers set up their displays and presented their findings. I was thoroughly impressed by all their efforts; many of which looked at war diaries, archival documents or specific…