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[bryndolan]

Hi, I've just arrived to live in England from Australia. My interest is in researching the officers who died at, or as the result of their service at, Gallipoli, in 1915/16.
My maternal grandfather was born in Teddington. He's the reason I can live in England. His father was born in Ireland. My paternal grandmother was born in Neath, Wales. My other grandparents were born in Australia. That's how I come to have a first name that's Welsh, an English middle name and an Irish surname. I was born in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, when it was still part of Australia, and I married my English wife, who I met in Japan, in New Zealand. I've been a teacher and school administrator most of my working life.
So I have a lot of interests, but as I said, my main one is the officers at Gallipoli. So far I've concentrated primarily on the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps officers (Anzacs), but I am also researching the British as well. It's a big job that I've been 'on' for more than twenty years now, but there's always more to learn.
Well that's me. Hope to learn a lot and maybe help others out as well.
Bryn

[Megan Roberts]

Hi Bryn

My great uncle was one of the thousands of ordinary soldiers killed at Gallipoli. If you are looking for a list of those who died a good place to start might be the Commonwealth War Graves site, where you can search by location as well as by name of casualty.

Good hunting.

[thewideeyedowl]

Hi and welcome

Have a look at the Gallipoli Association website: https://www.gallipoli-association.org/. It is very useful.

If you are after officers, then you could start with these two, brothers who were captains and both killed on 12 August 1915 - Donald and Clayton Ratsey, 1/8 Isle of Wight Rifles, Hampshire Regiment. They were from a well-known family of sailmakers in Cowes, Isle of Wight. Check the website: https://isleofwightrifles.org.uk/thegreatwar.php.

Take a look at Europeana 1914-1918 - there's a sticky on the WW1 Forum here, so easy to search. Enter the term Gallipoli when you get to Europeana and quite a lot is sure to come up with links to the place where located, e.g. IWM. Often there is so much more for officers than for ranks; letters and diaries may have been deposited at the Imperial War Museum or the Univ of Oxford.

Hope this will get you started.

Must go now.

Owl