Gallipoli: The Landing and the Line

The ANZAC landing on April 25, 1915, marked the opening of the Gallipoli campaign in World War I.

by Jose Campos

Bullets snapped off the shale walls of Shrapnel Gully. Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, stretcher bearer with the 3rd Australian Field Ambulance, led his donkey along the narrow track. A wounded man hung across the animal’s back. Simpson kept moving, singing, under fire coming off the ridgelines. He handed the man to the orderlies at the base, turned without pause...