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Memorials held on Turkey's Gallipoli to remember WWI deaths April 24, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Military personnel attend a ceremony to commemorate soldiers who died during the World War I campaign on the Gallipoli peninsula, in Canakkale, Turkey, Saturday, April 24, 2021, on the 106th anniversary of the Gallipoli Campaign. The Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 by Allied forces aimed to take control of the peninsula to weaken the Ottoman Empire. The campaign failed and Allied forces withdrew after eight months of fighting on the ground and some 250,000 casualties on both sides. The memorials were ke...

John Mather Published: 3:00 PM April 18, 2021    Veterans march past the Fusiliers Museum in a previous Gallipoli Day parade in Bury - Credit: Algy Cole The people of Bury will pause in reverence this month, to remember the men of the Lancashire Fusiliers who were gunned down in the carnage of the Gallipoli campaign.  More than 1,800 members of the regiment lost their lives and many more were physically and mentally damaged by the experience. In 1915 the Allied forces attempted to open up sea routes through the Black Sea to Russia and to weaken the Ottoman Empire. It was to be one...