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Wednesday 27 August 2014

Gallipoli Battlefields



Our trip to the Gallipoli battlefields was a very wonderful and moving day.  Such a beautiful place, such a sad history.  Lest we forget.  Not much more to say really.  I will let the pictures tell their story.
Landing site near ANZAC cove

ANZAC cove cemetery
ANZAC memorial site

The Sphinx - the diggers had to scale this to the front line

Cemetery near ANZAC cove
Lone Pine Cemetery

The southern end of the Peninsula where the British and French landed

The Dardanelles - the objective
Wise words of Ataturk
Turkish memorial

Brass relief, Turkish memorial


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