Anzac Cove landing
Part of the Gallipoli campaign of WW1. Opposed by the Ottoman Turkish defenders, troops from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed on the Gallipoli peninsula. The assault did not go as...
1 memorial
John Alexander Christie, VC
Soldier. He fought at Gallipoli, and then at Fejja in Palestine. After his position had been captured, he took a supply of bombs and went alone along the communication trench, and attacked the enem...
War served, WW1
2 memorials
Crimean War
War between Russia and an alliance of France, Germany, Britain, Turkey and the Kingdom of Sardinia. Major battles include those at Alma, Inkerman and Sebastopol, where they still occasionally find ...
6 memorials
George Drewry, VC
Sailor. Born George Leslie Drewry. He was a midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve and was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions on 25th April 1915 at V Beach in the landing at Cape Helles, dur...
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Sidly Effendi
Effendi, or Efendi, is merely a title of nobility and the name Sidly may well be just one spelling of the Turkish Ambassador's name. We can't identify him.
1 memorial
James Elroy Flecker
Poet and playwright. Born as Herman James Elroy Flecker in Lewisham. His first book of poems was published in 1907. He joined the consular service in 1908 and had postings in Constantinople and Bei...
1 memorial
Bernard Cyril Freyberg, VC
Soldier and administrator. Born Bernard Cyril Freyberg in Richmond, Surrey. He spent his early life in New Zealand, and at the outbreak of WWI enlisted in Britain and fought in Gallipoli and France...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, France, New Zealand, Turkey
War served, WW1
2 memorials
Armenian Genocide
Inflicted by the Turkish government on the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire, 1915-18 and 1920-3, with one and a half million victims. However it is a sensitive issue, with the numbers dis...
1 memorial
Gamze Gunöral
Gamze Gunöral was born on 4 June 1981 in Kadikoy, Istanbul, Turkey. She had only been in the UK for a few months as a student to learn English and was living with her aunt in Totteridge, north Lond...
3 memorials
Hipparchus
Astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. 190 BC – c. 120 BC. Founder of trigonometry. Possibly invented the armillary sphere, which we've discovered is occasionally used as a memorial, e.g. ...
1 memorial
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