Gallipoli Landings, 25 April 1915

Birdwood and senior ANZAC officers inspect the Gallipoli coast from HMS Queen Elizabeth before the landings.

Bridges issues final instructions for the 1st Australian Division's role in the ANZAC landing.

Sinclair-MacLagan's 3rd Australian Brigade embarks as the covering force for the ANZAC landing.

Stoker takes submarine AE2 into the defended Dardanelles on the morning of the Allied landings.

Hamilton orders the Anzacs to hold their ground rather than abandon the beachhead on the first night.

Commands the resistence to Allied landings at "Anzac Cove" near Gaba Tepe

Commands the 1st troop landings on Gallipoli with the 29th Div & Australian & NZ corps

Hamilton launches the main British landings on five beaches around Cape Helles.

Mustafa Kemal sends the 57th Regiment toward the heights after learning of the ANZAC landing.

De Robeck provides naval escort, bombardment and landing craft support for the invasion.

McCay's brigade is diverted toward the southern flank as the landing plan breaks down.

Esat directs Ottoman reserves as Allied troops land at Helles and Anzac.

Hunter-Weston's troops secure X Beach and begin expanding the northern side of the Helles perimeter.

Hunter-Weston consolidates several Helles landing beaches into a continuous Allied foothold.

Birdwood's corps is assigned a landing north of Gaba Tepe to threaten the peninsula's central communications.

Halil Sami prepares the 9th Division to defend the southern peninsula and landing beaches.

Hunter-Weston prepares simultaneous landings at five beaches around Cape Helles.

Johnston concentrates the New Zealand Infantry Brigade after its units complete the landing.

Hamilton briefs Stopford on the proposed Suvla landing and the need to seize the Tekke Tepe and Kiretch Tepe high ground.

Hamilton adds a new landing at Suvla to support the planned breakout from Anzac.

Troops of Hammersley's 11th Division seize Lala Baba after sharp fighting during the opening night of the Suvla operation.

Landing craft carrying parts of the 34th Brigade ground offshore, forcing troops to wade and adding confusion to the night landing.

Priestman's battalion opens sealed orders and studies its assigned objectives shortly before embarking for the night landing.

Ferrers-Guy sails with the landing flotilla from Imbros toward Suvla after darkness falls.

Stopford's IX Corps begins landing at Suvla Bay as the northern part of Hamilton's August offensive.

Kannengiesser receives warning that Allied troops have landed north of Ari Burnu and moves to assess the Suvla threat.

Stopford fails to press rapidly inland after the largely unopposed landing, allowing Ottoman reinforcements to occupy the heights.

Hill's 10th Division battalions are divided between C Beach and Gazi Baba, complicating concentration of the Irish division.

The first units of Inglefield's 54th East Anglian Division land at Suvla to reinforce IX Corps.

Hamilton removes Stopford after the Suvla force fails to exploit the surprise achieved by the landing.

Peyton's dismounted 2nd Mounted Division completes its arrival at Suvla after landing during the night of 17 to 18 August.

Hamilton approves a major August offensive combining ANZAC attacks, a Sari Bair advance and new landings at Suvla.

Liman von Sanders redistributes Ottoman formations and prepares mobile reserves against expected Allied landings.

Hamilton develops simultaneous landings at Cape Helles and north of Gaba Tepe with a French diversion at Kum Kale.