Gallipoli: Myth and Memory

Gallipoli: Myth and Memory is a brand new exhibition at the National Museum of the Royal Navy telling the Royal Navy’s story of the bloody Gallipoli Campaign of 1915 which was a major failure and caused over 200,000 Allied casualties, with many deaths coming from disease. Curator Nick Hewitt, author of Coastal Convoys: 1939-1945: The Indestructible Highway and The Kaiser’s Pirates: Hunting Germany’s Raiding Cruisers 1914-1915, spoke to us about some of the enduring misconceptions that have taken root as the the campaign became embellished by national myth in Australia, New Zealand and Turkey.