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Description: | 19121
Q 82549
whole: the image covers the whole, with the title incorporated and arranged upper left and lower right, in
black.
image: a three-quarter length image of a British/Commomwealth infantryman facing right and peering with his hand raised to his brow. He
stands against a turquoise background, with a pink silhouette map of Australia positioned top right and yellow map of the Dardanelles
peninsula placed bottom right.
text: Boys Come over here
KALGOORLIE, ADELAIDE, MELBOURNE, SYDNEY, HOBART [towns marked on Australia map]
you're wanted
SARI BAHR, GABATEPE, GALLIPOLI, KILID BAHR, CHANAK [locations marked on Dardanelles map]
ISSUED BY THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT
A.VAUGHAN, GOVERNMENT PHOTOLITHOGRAPHER, ADELAIDE
The campaign on the Dardanelles Straits and the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915 was the most famous action undertaken by
the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during the First World War.
The plan, devised by Sir Winston Churchill, First Sea Lord, was to seize the Dardanelles, which linked the Mediterranean to the Black Sea.
This would provide a valuable supply route to Britain’s ally Russia and create a diversion from the deadlocked Western Front.
However, Germany’s ally, Turkey, heavily defended the straits and the initial naval attack on 18th March 1915 made little headway. In April
it was decided to land troops on the northern coast of the straits, known as the Gallipoli Peninsula. Only two beachheads were established:
in the north at Gaba Tepe, known later as Anzac Cove, and at Cape Helles in the south. A third landing was made in August at Sulva Bay but
made little progress in the face of stiff Turkish resistance.
After months of trench warfare in appalling conditions, during which over 50,000 Allied soldiers died, many through disease, the decision
was made to evacuate. Throughout December 1915 and early January 1916 the Allied troops were withdrawn, bringing to a close one of the
greatest fiascoes of the war.
Design is derived from the British recruiting poster of the same title, however, it applies a portrait format and
makes reference to the Gallipoli operation opposed the Western Front. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | empire / commonwealth Military Personnel WW1 Australian Home Front AU.O South Australian Government Uniforms Cartography recruiting | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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