Vazirani and ratwani concrete structures pdfI think Gallipoli has a stronger impact on Australia's thinking about defence today than it has had at almost any time since the First World War. It was the first occasion that a demonstratively Australian formation was involved in an operation that scale and intensity.

The Battle of Gallipoli continued to impact soldiers long after the last shots were fired. One of the most notable post-battle effects was shell shock. Unique to World War 1, shell was the reaction of some soldiers to the intensity of the shelling. Shell shock didn’t inflict physical wounds, but instead had a psychological impact on the soldiers. On 25 April 1915 Australian soldiers landed at what is now called Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula. For the vast majority of the 16,000 Australians and New Zealanders who landed on that first day, this was their first experience of combat. By that evening, 2000 of them had been killed or wounded. The Gallipoli campaign was a military failure. A particularly debilitating aspect of service at Gallipoli was the widespread presence of illness and disease, especially dysentery. Brought on – and exacerbated by – the unhygienic living conditions, rotting corpses and huge numbers of flies, there was hardly anyone who had not been affected by it by the end of the campaign.

The Battle of Gallipoli was a very significant event for New Zealanders. April 25th 1915, ANZACs landed in the Gallipoli Peninsula and experienced everything horrific they could imagine. The Gallipoli Campaign was the biggest event in history of New Zealand during that time; an event that New Zealanders could not forget.