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A strong line-up on the Dardanelles and Gallipoli, and worth the trip! The Gallipoli Association holds its sixth regiona...
08/06/2026

A strong line-up on the Dardanelles and Gallipoli, and worth the trip! The Gallipoli Association holds its sixth regional conference at Portsmouth Grammar School on Saturday 20 June 2026 – the 111th anniversary year of the landings.

Seven speakers cover new work on Gallipoli and the Dardanelles: the submariners who took on the Straits after the naval attack failed, the picket-boat raid on the stranded E15, the journal of an officer wounded weeks before the evacuation, and the mystery of Lily Doughty-Wylie. Delegates can also see HMS M33, one of the last surviving ships of the campaign, and the Submarine Museum at Gosport.

The day runs 10am to 4pm. £35 including lunch and refreshments.

Details and booking: https://www.gallipoli-association.org/events/ga-regional-conference-portsmouth/

02/06/2026

Writing in his diary on 2nd June 1915, Captain Orlo Williams - Gallipoli Cipher officer at the Headquarters of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on Imbros, complained that Hamilton was making his job harder unnecessarily.

“This wire plainly written was rather stupidly transmogrified by [the] general with long literary words. e.g. “am unable to contemplate with soldierly equanimity the massing of the forces I have adumbrated”. Why must he use such words. Really Sir Ian does not impress me.” [1]

Williams' diary is now available in a superbly edited and produced volume published by Little Gully. Take a look at the link in the comments below.

[1] Williams quoted in Crawley, Rhys, Chambers, Stephen & Brown, Ashleigh (Eds.), “Inside GHQ. The Gallipoli Diary of Captain Orlo Williams,” p. 140, Little Gully Publishing (Sydney) 2025.

19/05/2026

Visitors to W Beach will know this walk. Here’s a view from 1915.

18/05/2026

Escadrille MF98T had a significant impact on the Gallipoli Campaign. They mapped the terrain and sighted the gunners.

18/05/2026

The modern-day Trojan Horse. Photographs by a French airman at Sedd-el-Bahr, 1915.

12 May – International Nurses Day, marked on Florence Nightingale’s birthday.Two LGP titles record the work of First Wor...
12/05/2026

12 May – International Nurses Day, marked on Florence Nightingale’s birthday.

Two LGP titles record the work of First World War nurses:

‘Mudros, 1915: Two French Nurses with the Army of the East’ by Jeanne Antelme and Elisabeth Jardin, edited by Bernard de Broglio.

‘Walking in Their Grave Clothes’ – the diary of Australian Army nurse Sister Hilda Samsing, edited by John Dixon.

https://littlegully.com/books/

April 1915. A French Nieuport floatplane was hoisted from the deck of HMS “Rabenfels” off the Sinai coast and turned inl...
10/05/2026

April 1915. A French Nieuport floatplane was hoisted from the deck of HMS “Rabenfels” off the Sinai coast and turned inland for Beersheba, 55 kilometres across Ottoman-held country.

On the return leg an exhaust valve rod broke. Engine revolutions collapsed. The aircraft began losing altitude. As it neared the coast, the observer counted 30 men with a Maxim gun waiting on the shore.

Ian M. Burns tells the full story – pilot’s report and all – on Mike Hanlon's Roads to the Great War. Drawn from Ian’s book ‘Floatplanes Over The Desert.’

https://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-floatplane-reconnaissance-over.html

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