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August 10, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Gallipoli Centenary: Australia remembers the Battle of Lone Pine

Australia held commemorations on August 6th 2015 marking the centenary of the battle for Lone Pine, one of its best known actions of the 1915 Gallipoli campaign.

August 12, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Gallipoli Centenary: New Zealand pays tribute at Chunuk Bair

New Zealand marked the centenary of its most significant action of the Gallipoli campaign with commemorations at Chunuk Bair on August 8th 2015.

October 16, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Gallipoli commander Sir Ian Hamilton ordered home

General Sir Ian Hamilton, British commander-in-chief at Gallipoli, was recalled on October 16th 1915 amid arguments about the future of the campaign.

October 27, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Gallipoli Centenary tour for Edinburgh school students

Students from two schools in Edinburgh have visited the Gallipoli battlefields on a second tour organised by the UK-based Gallipoli Centenary Education Project.

November 22, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago: Ottomans halt British/Indian advance in Mesopotamia

British and Indian troops were halted in their march towards Baghdad at the Battle of Ctesiphon from November 22nd-25th 1915.

December 6, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Gallipoli Centenary Education Project completes battlefield tours programme

Staff and students from a Devon school in the UK have visited the battlefields of the Dardanelles on the third and final tour of a programme organised by the Gallipoli Centenary Education Project.

December 7, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: British ministers order Gallipoli pull-out

The British Government ordered the withdrawal of Allied troops from Anzac Cove and Suvla on December 7th 1915, signalling the end of the Gallipoli campaign.

December 7, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Kut-al-Amara: How & why the siege began

General Sir Charles Townshend’s controversial decision to stand against the Ottomans at Kut-al-Amara in December 1915 is discussed in this article by Major Paul Knight.

Author: Major Paul Knight

December 7, 2015 CN Editorial Team

100 Years Ago Today: Ottoman siege of Kut starts in Mesopotamia

Ottoman troops trapped a British-Indian force in the town of Kut-al-Amara on December 7th 1915, heralding a siege that lasted almost five months.

December 7, 2015 CN Editorial Team

Kut-al-Amara: How & why the siege began

General Sir Charles Townshend's controversial decision to stand against the Ottomans at Kut-al-Amara in December 1915 is discussed in this article by Major Paul Knight.