This podcast on the Ottoman Artillery is is the third session of the second seminar in the Royal Australian Artillery Historical Association’s Firepower: Lessons from the Great War Seminar Series. This is presented by Professor Mesut Uyar, a graduate of the...
This presentation is a from Seminar 2 of the Royal Australian Artillery Historical Company’s Firepower: Lessons from the Great War Series. This episode, “The ANZAC Commanders and Firepower Employment” is by MAJ GEN Paul Stevens AO. Listen to this...
This lecture is presented by Dr Rhys Crawley, the author of Climax at Gallipoli. Dr Crawley compares artillery at Gallipoli with the employment of artillery in 1915 on the Western Front. Artillery was still seen as an accessory for the artillery, rather than as a...
Why did the soldiers hold short of their objectives on the first day of the landings at ANZAC? The 3rd Brigade were the first to land at Gallipoli. Why did COL Sinclair-Maclagan hesitate? How costly was this action? What was the Turkish dispositions on the...
Brigadier Muhammad Asgharpresents a fascinating look at the forgotten gunners of Gallipoli, the 7th Mountain Indian Artillery Brigade, comprising the 21st (Kohat) Mountain Battery and 26th Jacob’s Batteries. These Batteries become a part of the 1st...
In 1911 the NZ Government purchases 18 pounders and 4.5 inch howitzers as it starts to modernise. Their first deployment was to German Somoa, as a part of the Samoa Expeditionary Force, retaking the islands from the Germans. The ANZAC the NZ guns land,...
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