However, April 2021 marks the 106th anniversary of an earlier example of this kind of operation when soldiers, sailors and marines from Britain, Australia, New Zealand and France stormed ashore on various parts of the Gallipoli peninsula and Asiatic Turkey. When asked to give an example of this kind of operation, many people will automatically think of the famous and successful 'D-Day' landings in Normandy in 1944. One of the most difficult military operations that can be undertaken is that of an opposed amphibious landing on an enemy shore. Hobkirk DSO as GOC 14 Australian Brigade, July 1916 ![]() Through a Glass Darkly: The Appointment of T/Lieutenant-Colonel C.J.'The Grave by the Roadside' : Remembering 2/Lt.A Cockney Soldier and the Great War: Corporal William Charles Blumsom MM.The Advance of 9th Battalion Cheshire Regiment (part of 19th Division) in the Battle of Messines 7 June 1917 by Peter Crook In praise of a Colonel and a Lance Corporal.Budding Bairnsfather, Blighty Magazine and Cheery Tommy Atkins by Robert St.John Smith.Finding Captain Brooke: The oldest Regimental Medical Officer to be killed in the war.An unusual Corps name: the Almeric Paget Massage Corps.The Profitts…and Loss: A Cornish-Australian family at War. ![]() German submarine UC-71: a brief history. ![]()
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