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Visiting Gallipoli

Your on-the-ground experts are Crowded House Tours, a Turkish travel agency offering regular as well as bespoke tours and transfers.
Peter Hart Battlefield Tours is recommended for those with a sense of adventure. Go off the beaten track with historian and author Peter Hart.
Stephen Chambers and Clive Harris are the expert guides for tours run by the Gallipoli Association. They cater for first-time as well as regular visitors.

Gallipoli Houses offers self-catering accommodation in the village of Kocadere, right behind Anzac, with friendly and knowledgeable hosts.
There are many options in Çanakkale (check popular hotel booking websites) but consider Hotel des Etrangers, where Troy archaeologist/booster Heinrich Schliemann stayed in 1868.

The Gallipoli Association was established in 1969 by British veterans, and is the foremost Gallipoli society today. The journal and archives are a must-have resource.
Association Nationale pour le Souvenir des Dardanelles et Fronts d’Orient is the French connection.
The Western Front Association is not just focused on the European theatre of war. Of particular note is their TrenchMapper application, with Gallipoli maps. The WFA also has rich digital collections.

The Salonika Campaign Society is dedicated to all those who served in the campaign fought in northern Greece, Serbia and Albania from 1915 to 1918. They lead annual tours to northern Greece and the Republic of North Macedonia.

The Australian Society of WW1 Aero Historians publishes two journals a year and a quarterly PDF newsletter. Membership gives access to the complete archive, containing many articles relating to Aegean and Mediterranean air operations.
The Great War Aviation Society publishes Cross & Cockade International and offers an especially rich archive of First World War scholarship.

The Great War Forum offers a wealth of knowledge and expertise. Post your question or search the site (many questions have already been answered).
The Long, Long Trail is an excellent reference for researching soldiers of the British Army in the Great War of 1914-1918.
9BMR traces the 9th Battalion, Manchester Regiment from its 1908 formation through to the end of the First World War, with a strong Gallipoli focus – the battalion landed at Sedd-el-Bahr in May 1915. The site’s real strength is its transcriptions: full battalion war diaries alongside personal diaries and letters held at the Imperial War Museum, including those of Lieutenant William Thomas Forshaw VC.
For Egypt and Palestine, we recommend Stuart Hadaway’s excellent website Egyptian Expeditionary Force in WWI. Sign up for regular talks.

The Families In British India Society (FIBIS) maintains a comprehensive list of online books about Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and the Mesopotamia Campaign.

The Çanakkale Savaşları Enstitüsü publishes the military history magazine Anafarta as well as important historical books.
Gosling Press has a special interest in campaigns away from the Western Front and about the Indian Army.
Little Gully Publishing—that’s us. First-hand accounts, new histories and quality reissues.