Robert Gillard HMS Minerva Dardanelles
Where Are The Dardanelles?
Brief Background Frustrated by slow progress on the Western front, the allies looked for a ‘breakthrough’ Dardanelles was geographically significant to both allies and central powers The build up to the campaign started early 1915, with the main assault in Mar 1915 The allies were defeated with heavy casualties, in particular by Australian & NZ troops
Highlights Of Naval Diary, actor’s voice (8mins) Covers The Period Sep 1914 to Jun 1916 (War Photos From Imperial War Museum, ©Imperial War Museum)
Robert Gillard
HMS Minerva ©Imperial War Museum
Royal Navy battleship HMS Albion being towed by HMS Canopus after running aground off Gaba Tepe in the Dardanelles, 23 May 1915 ©Imperial War Museum
Third Battle of Krithia, 4th June British staff officers of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division., questioning Turkish officers in the field ©Imperial War Museum
British soldiers and rescued civilians on a boat in the Dardanelles. ©Imperial War Museum