Day 12 - Gallipoli
May 13th 2012 'Lest We Forget'
This morning we crossed the Dardanelles from Çanakkale to Gallipoli.
ANZAC Cove was our first stop, the landing site for the NZ forces. They were expecting an easy, leisurely climb up the hills to the high ground, but they missed their site and drifted a mile north, to steep cliffs and nearly impassable terrain, manned by Turkish machine guns. They were slaughte
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