Gallipoli Anzac Day Memorial

A memorial service will be held commemorating 109 years since the Gallipoli campaign.

 

The service will start at 12pm in the chapel followed by the laying of wreaths at the Gallipoli memorial at 12.30pm.

This memorial remembers the terrible loss of life during the First World War campaign of 1915 to secure the Gallipoli peninsula and defeat the armies of the Ottoman Empire.

The Allied Forces, which famously included the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC), were attempting to capture Constantinople (now Istanbul) and secure a sea route to Russia. There were huge casualties on both sides.

After the war the land where there had been fighting was gifted to the Allies to be cared for by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission.