British Projects
This section show cases some of our educational school projects in the United Kingdom. Would you like to be involved in future projects? If so please contact Ian Binnie, our Education Coordinator, at [email protected].
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The Gallipoli Association has used the services of Artists in Schools to hold Gallipoli themed projects. An artist was commissioned to work with the students producing a piece of work that commemorates the campaign. Education officer Ian Binnie gave a presentations to several schools. Projects have already taken place in a primary school in Cove...
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Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life in Carlisle worked with schools either side of the Scottish-English border on projects inspired by Gallipoli. Read an evaluation report here. Gallipoli Exhibition As part of the centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign, the museum set up a temporary exhibition and asked four local young people – Sean Poole, Kirsten B...
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Soldiers from rural North Devon left for Gallipoli in September 1915. Many of them died during the two months they spent on the peninsula. North Devon Museum joined up with the arts group DAISI to work with six local secondary schools on a range of projects inspired by the stories of men who signed up to Kitchener’s ‘New Armies’ and went out to...
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A project has been conducted with a school in Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire.
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Two Edinburgh schools – Leith Academy and Portobello High School – travelled out to Gallipoli with us in October 2015. The photos on this page give a taster of the trip. See also our blog and the interviews with the students and teachers here. Two of the students made films of their visits – see one of them here. Students visiting Turki...
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From Gosport to Gallipoli: Students from Bay House and Brune Park schools made trips to the peninsula in 2014 and 2019.
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Banners from Hawick (photo: L. Edmonds) The Scottish Borders sent many local soldiers to Gallipoli and we have worked with the council’s museum service on an exciting project to create artworks in textiles, with Hawick High School. Two of the students went to the project conference in March 2016, where they presented the banners and spoke abou...
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Bury is the home of the Lancashire Fusiliers, who were amongst the first troops to land at Gallipoli in April 1915. This photo shows one of the territorial Lancashire Fusilier battalions shortly before they landed later in May 1915 (IWM, Q 13219) Rochdale and Bury are two Lancashire mill towns which sent many soldiers to Gallipoli, both...
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One of our major projects is nearly complete in Islington, London. Soldiers joined many different regiments but our schools there have been focussing on the experiences of the local regiment – the Finsbury Rifles – which went to Gallipoli in July 1915. Islington is a very different place a hundred years on: today there is a large Turkis...
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The voyage to Gallipoli One of our Scottish projects has been run from Low Parks Museum in Hamilton, near Glasgow, based on the history of The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), 7th and 8th Battalions, and the Lanarkshire Yeomanry; Squadrons A,B and C. The Cameronians went out to Gallipoli in May 1915, arriving on the 14th of June. The Yeomanry...
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The GA is committed to supporting groups of young people on tours of the Gallipoli battlefields. One of our members, John White, organised a five day tour of the peninsula in September 2018. Stephen Chambers, our historian, accompanied the tour. It was a great success. Two of the cadets came to the GA AGM to talk about their experiences. They co...
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Projects have been conducted with schools from Birmingham, Coventry, Oldbury and Stretton-on-Dunsmore.
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Artists in Schools project and Gallipoli-themed remembrance were undertaken at Upper Wharfedale School.