Rare film: ANZAC troops at Gallipoli

This footage is believed to have been shot by Mr. Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the English journalist who gave Australia its first description of the ANZAC troops at Gallipoli. His colourful and stirring accounts of Australian soldiers' bravery, particularly of their landing at ANZAC Cove, helped give rise to the legend of Anzac. Bartlett filmed live action in and around Anzac Cove from July to September 1915, and the resulting footage, screened in 1916 under the title With the Dardanelles Expedition : Heroes of Gallipoli, was an instant success with audiences in England and Australia. A print of this film was acquired by the Memorial in 1919. However the "new" footage shown here was not a part of the film as it currently stands. It was discovered as an unidentified film segment within a compilation of footage related to World War 1 , sold to the Memorial in 1938. The seller of the footage was unable to shed light on its origins.

We can only guess why the footage was removed from the Dardanelles film. Although it cannot be authenticated to an absolute certainty, the most probable origin of the footage is that Bartlett shot it, because he was the only person known to have operated a moving film camera at Gallipoli. However we can be grateful that by whatever means, this film was preserved to add to our precious sum of knowledge of this iconic campaign.
Film accession number : F08484 .

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[vitalalive69]

Is this the only actual footage that survived ?

If anyone knows about other footage please let me know

[AustWarMemorial]

There is more footage in the AWM collection from this era. This particular video is just a representative segment of about 11 minutes of footage which was restored.

[swanningaround]

Remember the Turks too... The RSA President of New Zealand said :

"travellers should remember that Gallipoli was a place of remembrance for Turkey as well. "I know of no other instance in the world where a government has allowed peoples who have once tried to invade to come back and establish huge memorials and conduct an annual ceremony in their memory. When you think about it, that's a very generous thing to do."

I think it is remarkable too - well done, Turkey - respect!!!

[barbaros1passa]

Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives.You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country therefore rest in peace.

There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours.

You, the mothers Who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears;your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace after having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

(Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk)

[Msunbird02]

@swanningaround Agreed ... particularly as Turkey is an Islamic country.

[siciliaussieguy]

@IDoomTeddyz yes.

[Albertanator]

I'll never forgot going to a Mel Gibson movie Gallipoli in the early 80's with my Turkish Girlfriend at the time...neither of us knew what this movie was actually about and she was quite amazed near the end of the movie where you had Turkish soldiers talking...I still remember her telling me exactly what they said....

[Cengiz78x]

RIP Irish and Scottish troops

[flashjacksonbrown]

:( aussies died :(

[MilitaryAircraft101]

@swanningaround Yes, you never realise that even though they were the enemy, it doesn't mean that they are always the enemy. They were under a different rule then and their rulers decided to go to war against the allies. their men were told what to do, it's not the soldiers' faults

[pramboy09]

@SugarTomAppleRoger The term "ANZAC" is a term used for both australian and new zealand troops in battle together in the same operation, this happened for the first time at gallpoli and was how "ANZAC" came about. This term does not apply when working seperatly in different battles and is not just a term used for australian troops.

[fpvshitsonhsv]

@SugarTomAppleRoger ANZACS Australia and New Zealand was a joint operation ,there was no single operations. The uniforms were all the same in ww1 if you were part of the British empire ,even Canada. They only thing that made Anzacs stand out was our hats when not on the front line. New Zealanders just had a NZ badge on their top left pocket the rest was the same. There is no way from this video you can single out all the NZ troops from Aussies. Only old photo's taken before they left to fight

[IDoomTeddyz]

@SugarTomAppleRoger isnt anzacs

australian and new zeland army corps?

[fpvshitsonhsv]

@Aseper2 Yep that was spot on