On a landscape tinged with history and tragedy,

there are more than 30 British and Commonwealth cemeteries at Gallipoli.

Here we walk along the beaches and amongst the scrubland of the high ground

and find cemetery after cemetery on this amazing landscape

and pay homage to the men of Gallipoli.

We haven't travelled beyond the Western Front for a while now,

so I thought for this episode we'd go to Gallipoli.

We have visited Gallipoli in a previous podcast episode.

We looked at the landings at W Beach on Cape

Hellas, where my own grandfather was and some of my great uncles were in 1915.

But in this episode, I thought we'd do something slightly different.

Rather than walk a bit of battlefield, we'll walk a wider area of Gallipoli,

and we'll look at some of the Gallipoli cemeteries, not all of battlefield, we'll walk a wider area of Gallipoli, and we'll look at some of the

Gallipoli cemeteries, not all of them, but some of them, to look at different themes within

those burial grounds. But first, what of Gallipoli? What was the Gallipoli campaign all about?

In 1915, following the mobile war of the previous year, there were stalemates

on the Western Front, 450 miles of continuous trenches from the Belgian coast down to the Swiss border,

and it seemed that if that stalemate could not easily be broken. Now there were those the Westerners

who believed that the war could only be won on the Western Front, and that's where all efforts should be sent.

But there were others, such as Winston Churchill, who was then Lord of the Admiralty,

who believed that there were alternative fronts where success could be

gained in some manner or other, and one of those he felt was Gallipoli. The road to Gallipoli

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