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Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian war drama film directed by Peter Weir and produced by Patricia Lovell and Robert Stigwood, starring Mel Gibson and Mark Lee. The film revolves around several young men from Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Army during World War I .
At dawn on April 25, 1915, thousands of troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) were among a larger Allied force that landed on the narrow beaches of the Gallipoli peninsula ...
Gallipoli, The Fatal Shore (1988), winner of the United Nations Association of Australia Media Peace Award) The Boys Who Came Home (which he also published in book form) 75th Anniversary Gallipoli Pilgrimage (1990), and Live From Gallipoli (1990) for which he received the Television Society Award for the best Special Event in Television, 1990.
His first ANZAC study Gallipoli – The Western Australian Story, published in 2006, was short-listed in the Western Australian History category of the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for 2006, and he self-published Battalion into Battle – The History of the 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalion 1939-45 in 2011.
Vecihi "John" Başarın (IPA: [ˈvedʒˈiːhiː ˈbaʃaɾɯn]; born 1947) is a Turkish Australian historian and author with a special interest in Gallipoli. [1] His research has been instrumental in bringing a Turkish perspective to Australian migration and the ill-fated ANZAC campaign. He is a speaker on the subject of Gallipoli and has co ...
This use is reflected in ANZAC Day, which commemorates both the Gallipoli landings specifically and all Australian and New Zealand soldiers that have served or died in wars more broadly. During WWI, the term also referred to the location of the Gallipoli landings, in what is now known as Anzac Cove (also called simply Anzac at the time). [13]
It is located within the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park on Hisarlık Hill in Morto Bay at the southern end of the Gallipoli peninsula in Çanakkale Province, Turkey. The memorial was depicted on the reverse of the Turkish 500,000 lira banknotes of 1993–2005. [1] Martyrs' Memorial Martyrs' Memorial Reverse of 500,000 lira (1993 ...
Satellite image of the Gallipoli peninsula and surrounding area ANZAC Cove in Gallipoli. The Gallipoli peninsula (/ ɡ ə ˈ l ɪ p əl i, ɡ æ-/; [1] Turkish: Gelibolu Yarımadası; Greek: Χερσόνησος της Καλλίπολης, romanized: Chersónisos tis Kallípolis) is located in the southern part of East Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and ...