Reflections on Gallipoli

A collection of interviews exploring the Gallipoli story from a variety of perspectives.

Stories and studies of war – a collection of interviews exploring the Gallipoli story from a variety of perspectives.

Collection items

  • Why Gallipoli?

    9 Aug 2015

    Why does Gallipoli loom so large in the imagination of Australians and New Zealanders? What are the realities and the myths? Kim Hill discusses these questions with historians Dr Christopher Pugsley… Audio, Gallery

  • A revisionist history of Anzac Day

    25 Apr 2015

    The curator of Te Papa's Gallipoli exhibition, Kirstie Ross, casts a critical eye on the accepted wisdom of what Anzac day is all about. Audio

  • Māori at Gallipoli

    6 Feb 2015

    Te Papa curator Puawai Cairns has been researching the stories of Māori men at Gallipoli. She discusses their reasons for volunteering, what happened to them and reuniting families with the stories of… Audio

  • Roger Ridley-Smith: medicine and Gallipoli

    23 Jun 2012

    Retired General Practitioner Roger Ridley Smith whose paper, The Sick Soldiers of Gallipoli, was presented to the Third Gallipoli Conference in Istanbul in 2012. Mentions the book Gallipoli by John… Audio

  • The fall of the Ottomans

    25 Apr 2015

    Associate Professor of the Modern History of the Middle East and Fellow of St Antony's College at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Fall of the Ottomans: the Great War in the Middle… Audio

  • Gallipoli, a Turkish perspective

    26 Apr 2015

    Nejat Kavvas has lived in New Zealand for close to 40-years and is a former Turkish honorary consul to this country. He says a century on the Gallipoli campaign has brought the two countries closer… Audio

  • Gallipoli - The Australian story

    25 Apr 2015

    Journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald, TV commentator, former radio presenter and national representative rugby union player whose new book is Gallipoli (Random House). He will be… Audio

  • John Tonkin-Covell: Gallipoli - the places, the soldiers

    25 Apr 2013

    New Zealand military historian John Tonkin-Covell has contributed a chapter on Chunuk Bair, one of the most celebrated battles of the Gallipoli campaign, to the book Gallipoli : a ridge too far. He… Audio

  • The Vault - Gallipoli

    25 Apr 2000

    Deborah Nation presents a selection of Gallipoli and Anzac memories from old soldiers in recordings held by the Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. Audio

  • The first ANZAC ceremony

    21 Apr 2011

    On Anzac Day 1916, the world's first Anzac ceremony was held on a rugged hillside overlooking the village of Tinui in the Wairarapa. Reverend Basil Ashcroft erected a wooden cross on the hill. It… Audio

  • Wayne Brittenden's Counterpoint

    27 Apr 2014

    Wayne Brittenden looks at the impact of Gallipoli on our national psyche and comes up with a challenging critique of the campaign. Wallace Chapman follows up with psychology professor Tony Taylor, and… Audio

Galleries

A nation remembers

Services around the country have been held to mark 100 years since the Gallipoli campaign, with tens of thousands turning out to remember those who died far from home.

Getting there

Photos of New Zealand troops, from their days as Military Cadets, on their journey to Egypt and the landing at Gallipoli.

Being There

The hills and valleys around Anzac Cove were an inhospitable environment, the land harsh and rugged, and war imposed its own mark.

Faces

The men and women of WW1 look back at us after a century, so we can remember them.

Indian Sikh soldiers Gallipoli Turkey

There were more than 15,000 Indians fighting at Gallipoli but their part in the campaign is often forgotten.