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This is a picture of Allied Soldiers taking playing a game of Cricket at Shell Green. There were actually shells flying overhead of this game. The game was played to distract the Turks from the imminent departure of Allied Forces.

This pictures shows an Australian soldier giving water to a wounded Turkish Soldier. The famous place of the Turkish defenses, Achi Baba, is noticeable in the background.

This is a picture of an Australian Regiment charging uphill with their fixed Bayonets. Most likely trying to take Imbros or Lemnos.

This image shows British Troops storming the "V" beach during the Cape Helles Landings.

Captain Campbell gives us a pretty gruesome depiction of how soldiers are living on the Peninsula

This pictures illustrates French Senegalese troops getting off the SS River Clyde to join the fight.

A soldier goes into detail about the brutal living conditions that New Zealanders were forced to live in. At some places, the space between the beach and the front lines was only 900 meters, causing lots of difficulty transporting supplies.

Reproduced below is the text of the letter sent by British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett to British Prime Minister Herbert Asquith reporting from the Gallipoli campaign. Bartlett gives his opinions on what is going at the Peninsula. This…

C.E.W. Bean, a War Correspondent for the Australia Gazette, gives the reader a description of the usual day for a soldier fighting during this campaign.

Frost-bitten soldiers lay on straw in structures made by biscuit boxes in Suvla.