Two members of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers were awarded the Victoria Cross during the Gallipoli campaign: Captain Gerald Robert O'Sullivan of the regiment’s 1st Battalion and Sergeant James ...

Why was Gallipoli important? In late 1914 it was clear to the allies that there would be no quick victory in World War One. The western front had become static, and a costly trench war had begun.

How the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I shaped the Middle East: Tim Arango . Updated: Jun. 28, ... In March 1915, the Western Allies, locked in stagnant trench warfare in Europe, ...

The First World War was an unprecedented catastrophe that shaped our modern ... Allies Complete Gallipoli Evacuation. ... as low-grade trench warfare continued unabated around Cape Hellas, ...

On a recent cruise from Athens to Istanbul, this summer’s 100th anniversary of World War I was on the minds of our fellow passengers from Australia and New Zealand. While Bryan: Gallipoli — a ...

June 4, 1915: New Allied Attack at Gallipoli Like many of the other great battles of the First World War, Gallipoli was actually a series of clashes, any of which would have qualified as a huge ...

Here’s some background information about World War I, also known as the First World War and the Great War, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. Causes of World War I The assassination of Archduke Franz ...

Seize the Turkish straits, which the Ottomans had closed to shipping, bombard the capital, knock the dying empire out of the war, and the Kaiser’s Germany would be weakened — that’s the simple version ...