On 25 April 2015 – Anzac Day – the University of Southampton and the National Museum of the Royal Navy will mark precisely one hundred years since Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli peninsula.
Speakers at this event will include Gateways' Professor Mark Connelly and network member Professor Adrian Smith.
This audacious attempt to seize Turkish fortifications and secure control of the Dardanelles proved a costly failure. The losses sustained at Gallipoli famously helped forge Australia and New Zealand as sovereign nations independent of Great Britain, and yet the ‘mother country’ provided the bulk of the invasion force. Across the eight months of the campaign the Hampshire Regiment was prominent in the fighting, with the 2nd Battalion on day one wading ashore at V Beach from the steamship River Clyde. A study day at Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard will examine what connects the Gallipoli campaign and the south of England, in particular Hampshire. As well as focusing upon the conflict itself, speakers will consider how failure at the Dardanelles was perceived after the war, not least in the south coast county on which ‘Johnny Turk’ had inflicted such heavy casualties.
£40 full rate (please email the University of Southampton for details of their new Loyalty Scheme)
£25 loyalty rate (Harbour Lights Members, Friends of Parkes, English Teachers Network, university staff and alumni)
£12.50 discount rate (students/sixth form & college students and those in receipt of income-based Job Seeker's Allowance, Income Support, Working Tax Credit, Council Tax or Housing Benefit)
All prices include lunch and refreshments.
Please note that parking charges may apply. Further details to be confirmed in due course.
For further details, programme and booking instructions visit the event website.
