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- Gallipoli was a costly failure for the Allies: 44,000 Allied soldiers died, including more than 8700 Australians. Among the dead were 2779 New Zealanders – about a sixth of those who fought on the peninsula.
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New Zealand suffered around 8000 killed and wounded, about 5.6 percent of Allied casualties on Gallipoli. The Ottoman Empire paid a heavy price for their victory: an estimated 250,000 Turkish and Arab troops were killed or wounded defending Gallipoli.
- The Gallipoli Campaign
By the time the campaign ended, more than 130,000 men had...
- The Gallipoli Campaign
Sep 10, 2024 · Gallipoli Campaign, in World War I, an Anglo-French operation against Turkey from February 1915 to January 1916 that was intended to force the 38-mile-long Dardanelles channel and to occupy Constantinople. Learn more about the Gallipoli Campaign in this article.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Casualty figures for the campaign vary between sources but in 2001, Edward J. Erickson wrote that in the Gallipoli Campaign over 100,000 men were killed, including 56,000–68,000 Ottoman and around 53,000 British and French soldiers. [14]
Unfortunately, Gallipoli was a dangerous place to be even when there wasn’t fighting. In the most deadly month of the campaign, August 1915, for example, 10,477 allied soldiers died. The...
Apr 24, 2015 · More than 100,000 troops were killed and hundreds of thousands more were wounded. But victory came at a terrible cost. The allies turned their attention to invading the Middle East, taking...
The Allies suffered over 220,000 casualties out of a force of nearly 500,000. From their point of view, the campaign was a disaster. The Turks suffered almost as many casualties, but their victory at Gallipoli rejuvenated the Ottoman war effort. Further success followed at Kut in Mesopotamia (1916) and there was a renewed deployment into Sinai.
By the time the campaign ended, more than 130,000 men had died: at least 87,000 Ottoman soldiers and 44,000 Allied soldiers, including more than 8700 Australians. Among the dead were 2779 New Zealanders, about a sixth of all those who had landed on the peninsula.
