The Battle of Gallipoli 1915 Remembrance assembly The Battle of Gallipoli 1915
Britain and Germany were on opposing sides of the war and were at a stalemate in France – The Western Front
Germany was allied with Turkey
Why the battle happened? Britain desperately needed to defeat Germany and wanted to open up an Eastern Front. Britain hoped that an attack on Turkey would draw Bulgaria and Greece into the war on their side.
THE PLAN Winston Churchill created a plan for a naval attack on Turkey.
The battle moved onto the ground… The battle soon involved both sides peering at each other from fortified trenches, forced to die in futile frontal attacks on well defended positions. The British forces withdrew at the end of the year.
Australia: 18.500 wounded and missing - 7,594 killed New Zealand : 5,150 wounded and missing - 2,431 killed British Empire: 198,000 wounded and missing - 22,000 killed France : 23,000 wounded and missing - 27,000 killed Turkey: 109,042 wounded and missing - 57,084 killed Furthermore 1.700 Indians died in Gallipoli, plus an unknown number of Germans, Newfoundlanders and Senegalese.
He grew up and lived in Magdelan Street, Exeter William Neville Jubb He grew up and lived in Magdelan Street, Exeter
World War One Dead - Magdalen Road Serjeant, Robert Cole, Coldstream Guards. 6 February 1915. Age 28. Woodbine Place, Magdalen Road Captain, John Edmund William Dennis, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. 23 August 1914. Magdalen Road 2nd Corporal, Samuel Wilkey Goldsworthy, Royal Engineers. 5 January 1915. Age 44. Magdalen Bridge, Magdalen Rd Acting Bombardier, Michael Lacey, Royal Field Artillery. 29 March 1917. Age 31. Woodbine Place, Magdalen Rd Captain, James Stirling, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). 2 January 1915. Age 30. Hensleigh House, Magdalen Rd Rifleman, Gowden Wilkeyson, King's Royal Rifle Corps. 17 August 1916. Age 27. Magdalen Rd Gunner, Patrick Wilson, Royal Field Artillery. 27 February 1919. Age 60. Pavilion Place, Magdalen Rd Magdalen Street Private, Percival Harold Syms, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry). 14 April 1918. Age 19. Magdalen St Sapper, A J Cobley, Royal Engineers. 14 December 1918. Age 22, Wynards, Magdalent St Ordinary Seaman, Sidney Charles Collins, H.M.S. "P.41.", Royal Navy. 10 May 1918. Age 19. Magdalen St Lance Corporal, William Neville Jubb, Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry. 25 November 1915. Age 23. Magdalen St Private, Richardson Grey Warne, Durham Light Infantry. 7 December 1918. Age 36. Magdalen St Private, Charles Weeks, Essex Regiment. 9 August 1917. Age 23. Magdalen St