The cockpit of Donald Campbell's Bluebird boat
The first book for 2025 from Gosling Press will be Avni Bey
The Story of Lieutenant Colonel Hüseyin Avni, Commander of the Ottoman 57th Regiment at Gallipoli. To find out more sign up to the Gosling mail list at eepurl.com/ilSud6
Our Education Coordinator Ian Binnie visited Upper Wharfdale school yesterday.
Upper Wharfdale have been selected as the school to benefit from the Gallipoli Association bursary this year.
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Our next zoom talk will be on Tuesday 26th November, 19:30 hours UK time.
The talk entitled, The 1/5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment at Gallipoli 12th August 1915 : Truth & Myth will be given by Steve Smith.
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Newlands valley nr Keswick, Cumbria
#lakedistrict #summer
Gallipoli: The First D-Day? On the 80th Anniversary of the Normandy Landings in 1944 the Old Front Line podcast looks at how events at Gallipoli in 1915 link the two great conflicts. #Gallipoli #DDay80
oldfrontline.co.uk/2024/06/08/g...
The French Army’s wine stock before the Battle of Gallipoli, Dardanelles Campaign. The Dardanelles Campaign of 1915/16 was a failed WWI military campaign in modern Turkey Gelibolu. The Entente powers, Britain, France and Russia, sought to take control of the Turkish straits.
Derwentwater near Keswick in Cumbria. #lakedistrict #paddleboard
Trent Bridge in May 😎
#nottingham #cricket
Summer has arrived in Nottingham.
#trentbridge #cricket #nottingham #worcestershire
Managed to pick up a copy of @goslingpress.bsky.social “Peninsula Press” at the Gallipoli Association conference yesterday. The book contains all 96 copies of this rare Gallipoli allied news sheet. That’s today’s reading sorted!
The Anzac Medallion (1965) was awarded to surviving members of the Australian and New Zealand forces who served at Gallipoli during the campaign. This example was posthumously awarded to an 8/AIF soldier who died later at Ypres in 1917.
Donald Campbell’s Bluebird K7 will return to Coniston
The Ruskin Museum is delighted to announce that it has finally managed to secure the future of Donald Campbell CBE’s world record breaking Jet Hydroplane, Bluebird K7.
This week's blast from the past is THE SUVLA LANDINGS, 1915. A multi-layered cock-up of biblical proportions, but could it ever really have succeeded? Make your own mind up! Please share! open.spotify.com/episode/3CTB...
Today’s piece from the GWH Collection is the Wolseley Sun Helmet which belonged to 753 Cpl William Parry of 1/5th Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
A pre-war Territorial, he joined the 1/5th after Gallipoli and were in Egypt.
He was wounded in Palestine but managed to keep his Wolseley.
Fabulous Gallipoli Association lecture by Prof Gary Sheffield - youtu.be/kuJxR-k5frk
#gallipoli #militaryhistory #WW1
#OnThisDay 18th January 1879, after a few days of ritual preparation, the main Zulu Impi had left Kraal at oNdini (Ulundi). Over 20,000 men, 12 full regiments of mostly young, unmarried, warriors headed in the direction of Isandlwana #AngloZuluWar #History #OTD
A little present in the post today. The fabulous Gallipolian, the journal of the Gallipoli Association.
#WeRemember #Gallipoli #Turkey #WW1
On This Day in January 1916 the final act of the Gallipoli Campaign was played out #OnThisDay #OTD #History
#OTD in 1916, the Gallipoli Campaign ended. #WW1 #HISTORY
