Tours & Bursaries
In 1995 the Association began the Memorial Bursary Scheme. Each year since then, at the discretion of the committee, candidates have been awarded bursaries to enable them to visit the Gallipoli battlefields in order to study a particular aspect of the campaign. On their return they are asked to prepare an article for the Association journal and give a presentation to an invited audience.
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The current series of Gallipoli battlefield tours began in 2001. Since then the Association has arranged tours most years for its members and guests.
The scene of every battle is visited and there is free time for individuals to re-visit any cemetery or area having special significance for them. Every evening the party can either go out together in a group, or as individuals to visit the many excellent local restaurants and roof-top bars.
The Gallipoli Association September 2011 Tour
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Anzac - North Beach in Spring
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Group tour at 7th Field
Ambulance CWGC
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To view some of the tour locations virtually via Google Earth, please click here.
We take advantage of our visit to see local sights: old Constantinople, the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia. Then we head for the Gallipoli peninsula where we will discover that time has not diminished the atmosphere and grim beauty of the historic battlefield. We see where the Lancashire Fusiliers won six VCs before breakfast.
See why ANZAC Cove and Suvla Bay are an indelibly part of Australian and New Zealand military heritage. Discover how French and Indian soldiers as well as British troops of Kitchener's New Army faced up to appalling pressures.
Returning to Istanbul via the site of ancient Troy, we visit Scutari, where Florence Nightingale made her name in the Crimean War. There will be opportunities for shopping at the famous Spice Market and a Carpet Centre. There is an optional tour on the Bosphorus - teeming with life and shipping of all shapes and sizes - before we finish in a fish restaurant for lunch. Visits may be made to any war cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula during the tour as well as the Haydar Pasha War Cemetery in Scutari, outside Istanbul.
Our tour this year will be led by Colonel Christopher Newbould CBE, a member of the Association. He is Chief Battlefield Guide of Poppy Travel and has led many tours to Gallipoli. If you would like to join him, please contact Christopher on cjn@btinternet.com or write to: Colonel CJ Newbould CBE, Treetops, Shrewton, Salisbury SP3 4HD - Tel; 01980 621060. You will be sent a booking form and a detailed itinerary.
- Price - £1170 per person (sharing) - Based on a minimum group of 15.
- £175 single supplement
- Deposit £300 per person
- Hotels on a full board basis - dinner, lunch, bed & breakfast, except on Day Eight
- Passport - 10-year must be valid for 6 months beyond the end of stay.
- Visa - At own expense on arrival in Istanbul (currently £10 per person).
- Inoculations - Typhoid and Polio are advised but your local doctor will have the latest information.
- Insurance - travel insurance is required
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PROVISIONAL ITINERARY
Day One - Thursday 29 September
0815 Tour assembles London Heathrow for 1030 flight to Istanbul. Transfer to hotel.
Day Two - Friday 30 September
am Tour of Istanbul. Lunch provided in Topkapi Palace overlooking the Bosphorus.
pm Depart for Gallipoli Peninsula. Cross Dardanelles by ferry to hotel in Canakkale.
Day Three - Saturday 1 October
am Campaign briefing. Visit Turkish gun positions and hear about the naval battle to force the Dardanelles. Optional visit to Naval Museum. Lunch in hotel.
pm Visit Cape Helles - V Beach, Lancashire Landing, Helles Memorial. See where the Battles for Krithia were fought in the shadow of Achi Baba.
Day Four - Sunday 2 October
Visit S Beach, Turkish Memorial, Gully Ravine, ANZAC Cove, Lone Pine and Sari Bair Ridge, including the Nek & Chunuk Bair. Picnic lunch.
Day Five - Monday 3 October
Visit Suvla Bay sector. Picnic lunch.
Day Six - Tuesday 4 October
Go to ancient Troy. Return to Istanbul. Lunch in restaurant en route.
Day Seven - Wednesday 5 October
Visit Military Museum and Scutari. Lunch in local restaurant. Visit Spice Bazaar and Carpet Centre.
Day Eight - Thursday 6 October
am Optional Bosphorus tour at extra cost. Lunch at fish restaurant at own expense.
pm Fly Istanbul to London.
1940 approx Arrive London Heathrow.
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