Hell and High Water: Gallipoli 101 Years On

It was just before dawn on April 24th 1915 when troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) waded ashore on Gaba Tepe beach to begin an eight-month ordeal that would test them to their very limits. They were followed by the British and French in more allied landings all across the Gallipoli peninsula and the ensuing campaign would involve over 500,000 allied troops in all and would leave 141,000 laying injured or dead by its end.

101 years ago out at sea in the darkness the whistle blew. And so began eight months of hell.