Anzacs

•The word Anzac means Australia and New Zealand army corps

Anzac Cove

Enlisting

•You had to be 18 or over to go into war

Anzacs in Egypt [training]

• The Anzacs went to train in Egypt for 8 months 8 weeks and 4 days before they left Gallipoli

Anzacs Leaving N.Z

The Anzacs left new Zealand and sailed to Egypt to train in the shadows of the pyramids for five months.

These soldiers who sailed for war in October 1914 when 8417 New Zealand on their 10 transport ships joined with the 20,000 Australians at Albany in Western Australia and sailed for Egypt.

Anzacs at Gallipoli

•The Anzacs were dropped off at the wrong beach and fired down by the Turks soldiers

• When the Anzacs were in the trenches they had to get used to rats, daily death, frogs, lice, worms, trench foot, Stand to morning hate, daily boredom, Patrolling no-mans land and the smell. In the trenches rats grew to as big as cats because they would eat and eat and eat the dead bodies that were all round them

• The fighting went on for eight months eight weeks and four days at Gallipoli. Finally, the generals realized that they were going to lose the battle so they decided to sneak all the soldiers away. To help hide what they were doing, the Australians played a game of cricket to distract the Turks and pretend that everything was going on as normal

Winston Churchill’s Plan• By December 1914, fighting had stopped the Germans getting

to Paris but were unable to push them backwards along the western Front. Meanwhile, on the Eastern Front, harsh winter conditions meant that either the Russian nor the Germans armies fighting each other were making much headway. Churchill thought capturing the capital of Turkey, would allow more supplies to reach Russian troops , giving them an advantage over the Germans. He also thought that, that a victory in the region would convince some of the Turkey’s neighbours to support the Allies. This would put adding pressure on Germany, but to capture the Allies that first had to take control of the Dardanelles, an important strait of water. The Gallipoli Peninsula was at the entrance to the Dardanelles. That’s why the Anzacs were sent to Gallipoli.

Simpson and His Donkey

• Simpson’s real name is John Simpson Kirkpatrick. Simpson was one of the first Anzacs to land on Gallipoli. When Simpson found a stray donkey he found it would come in handy. He would sing and whistle, seeming to ignore the deadly bullets fling through the air, while he tended to his comrades. The donkey came to be named to be Duffy. On May 1915, Simpson luck ran out , he was struck by a machine gun and died.

Transport in 1914

• The things that were used in 1914 were Horses, Horse and cart, Steam train, Engine boat and an old Fashioned cars.

In Flanders Fields In Flanders Field Where poppies blow Between the crosses row on row, That marks are place, and in the sky The lurks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amidst the guns below.

We are the dead Short days ago. We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. Loved and were loved, and now we lie Flanders Fields.

Take up are quarrel with the foe. To you from falling hands we throw. The touch be yours to hold it high. It ye break faith with us who die. We shall not sleep, through poppies grow In Flanders Fields

Famous Battles.

• Chunuk Bair• Lone Pine • The Nek

Communication in 1914

Communication in 1914

• Although the telephone was invented there was no electricity

• Radios were used often but broke down so they used carrier pigeons instead.

• Carrier pigeons were used to send messages to other areas of the trenches.

By Jonathan Fall