Stephen Chambers - Anzac - The Landing: Gallipoli

Thanks are due to a number of individuals and organisations that have helped in the writing of this book. I am hugely indebted to Patrick Gariepy who has again been of great help with biographical details of Gallipoli casualties, Julian Pitt for permission to quote from his grandfathers diary and Bruce Denny for information on his grandfather, Major David Grant. I would also like to thank John Meyers for permission to quote from the Tiegs diary, State Library of South Australia for permission to quote from Jack Jensens letter, Alexander Turnbull Library in New Zealand for permission to quote from the Malone and Bollinger diaries and the Mitchell Library of NSW for permission to use quotes from the Silas diary. I would also like to thank Chris Newbery and Matthew Little of the Royal Marines Museum for permission to use their archives and to quote from the diaries of Oppenheim and Pare, and John Peters for supplying photographs of the cemeteries as they were in the 1920s. And as always the staff at the National Archives, Australian War Memorial, Imperial War Museum and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, all who have been of immense help. In Turkey, I would like to thank Erol Baycan and his wife for always providing great hospitality and a wonderful base to work from when in Gallipoli, and both Eric Goossens and William Sellers, both of whom are never-ending fountains of knowledge and beer. As always thanks is due to Nigel Cave, Series Editor, who has helped and inspired along the way. To all these people and any I have mistakenly forgotten to mention, please accept my sincere apologies and thanks.

This book would not have been possible to write without contemporary material: war diaries, divisional, regimental, battalion and unit histories and the excellent Official History of Australia in the Great War by C.E.W. Bean. Charles Bean was an official war correspondent who landed with the Anzacs on 25 April 1915. From first hand experience, the interviewing of veterans and examination of documents he managed to construct a meticulous record of what happened. I have referenced many personal accounts in the form of letters and diaries as well as a large assortment of maps and photographs, many having never been published before. The originators of these must all be thanked, because without this material there would be no book. Any copyright holders I have not been able to trace, please accept my sincere apologies, and feel free to contact me if you feel it necessary. I have sought to tell the story of Anzac during its first days of the landing using this wealth of information, but unfortunately, due to the limited space available, please be assured that the omission of any unit, key individual or event does in no way suggest that its part at Anzac had little or no significance.