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‘Thrilling story of Australasian valour’ by Ellis Ashmead Bartlett The Sydney Mail, 12 May 1915

‘Thrilling story of Australasian valour’ by Ellis Ashmead Bartlett The Sydney Mail, 12 May 1915

Newspaper article

F079.944105/3

Digital ID: c000050005

‘Heroes of the Dardanelles’

Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett was the war correspondent for the British Daily Telegraph. His reports of the Gallipoli landing were the first to be published in Australian newspapers, including the pictorial weekly, The Sydney Mail which incorporated portraits of some of the early Australian casualties. Bartlett’s stirring descriptions of this ‘race of athletes’ who ‘proceeded to scale the cliffs’ helped shape the ANZAC legend which has endured for one hundred years.

Graphic Map of the Dardanelles

This ‘bird's eye’ map provides a sweeping view of the Gallipoli peninsular and west coast of Turkey. It was printed in London in 1915 to illustrate the Dardanelles campaign to the British public. It optimistically predicted the movement of Allied troops from the Peninsular to Constantinople (Istanbul); the ultimate aim of the Gallipoli campaign.


ANZAC Map of Gallipoli

The ANZAC map of Gallipoli illustrates the trench systems in place during the Gallipoli campaign. The British trenches are indicated in red and the Turkish in black. Place names on the map are a combination of Turkish and English. The map has been annotated on the right with a listing of 66 Australian numbered trenches.