Freo Today. 25 April 2025. On 25 April 1915, just 110 years ago, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps – the ANZACs – landed at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula, as part of a broader Allied campaign to capture the peninsula and open up the Dardanelles Strait. The landing was met with fierce Turkish resistance, and the terrain proved far more challenging than anticipated.

By the end of the first day, over 2,000 ANZACs had been killed or wounded. The losses continued to mount as the ANZACs struggled to hold their positions against relentless Ottoman counterattacks

The campaign ultimately became a stalemate, with trench warfare dominating the battlefield.

The Gallipoli campaign was a military failure, but it became a defining moment in the national identities of Australia and New Zealand commemorated annually, today, Anzac Day, 25 April.

This photograph, taken by our Editor, Michael Barker, exactly three weeks ago, shows the Lone Pine Cemetery, which is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located in the ANZAC sector of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Türkiye. It is the site of the Lone Pine Memorial, which commemorates Australian and New Zealand soldiers who fought in the Gallipoli campaign but have no known grave.

To be there is to be moved.

Lest we forget.