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Jim Martin Joins the Army
Once war broke out Jim joined the army after blackmailing his mum, Jim said that if his mum didn't let him join that he would run away and join under a diffrenet name. -
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Jim Martin's Military Life
Jim Martin was the youngest anzac to die at Gallipoli, he was only 14 when he died of Typoid onboard a hospital ship off the coast of Gallipoli. -
Anzac's Land at Gallipoli
The plan seemed simple and easy, they would land 15 hundread men to secure.the beach and sezie the turk's third gun ridge. They would then send another 25 hundread men to push more into the turkish defences. The last 21 thousand men would follow the other 4 thousand to secure the whole area, but something went wrong. Many people say that they landed at the wrong place, or that were ment to land there since it wasn't very defended. What ever it was, it didn't work and thousands of men died. -
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The Gallipoli Campagin
From the landing on the 25th to the evacuation the allies tried multipule times to take over Gallipoli from the Turks but failed, many men died over this campagin and nothing was acheved the allies didn't even disrupt the other turkish soldiers that where off fighting on the front. -
The Turkish Offensive
After the failure that was the landing, the Anzacs dug in and made trenchs, but the turks didn't want them in there land anymore and gathered men to launch an attack on the weakest parts of the Anzac lines. Luckly a plane saw the new turkish soldiers coming and warned the Anzacs so that they wouldn't be surprised. Around 3 thousand turkish men died in the attack and another 10 thousand where wounded. Over the 9 or so hours of fighting that happened that day the Anzacs only lost around 160. -
Cease Fire
A cease fire was arranged for the 24th of May for a few hours so that the Turks could bury their dead and the Anzacs do the same. Since so many turkish men died a few days before they had to dig rushed holes so that they could bury all the men in the short time that they had. -
Jim Martin Leaves for Egypt
Along with the rest of the 21st Infantry Battalion Jim boarded the HMAT Berrima to Egypt from which they would get taken to Gallipoli. Jim left his family and his home as the boat left Melbourne. This would be the last time that he sees his family. -
The August Assault
After failing at the landing and surviving the Turkish attack the allies deccided to launch their own attack again. Once again just like the landing the attack failed for many reasons. Many ally troops died in the battles that took place over the few days. The Battle of the Nek and Lone Pine were two of the battles in the campagin. -
Jim Martin's Boat is Torpedoed
While Jim and his other soldiers where on their way from Egypt to Gallipoli their boat, the HMT Southland was hit by a torpedo from a German U-boat. The sinking of the ship happened some time in late August and left the soldiers stuck in the water for hours untill they where rescued. When rescued Jim met his other soldiers at Mudros where they took the Abassieh on the 7th of September to finish their trip to Gallipoli -
Jim Martin Lands at Gallipoli
After the anzacs had been at Gallipoli for about 5 months Jim Martin and his battalion landed at Gallipoli and were stationed in the trenches near Courtney's Post. He wrote to his mum on the 4th of October but only 21 days later Jim would be taken to a hospital ship and would die hours later. -
Jim Martin Dies
Jim Martin had been sick for a while, but on the 25th of October 1915 Jim was taken to the Glenart Castle (Hospital Ship) sick with typhoid. Only hours after arriving at the ship he died, Jim Martin was the youngest soldier to die at Galipoli. -
The Evacuation
Said to be one of the only things that they sucsessfully did in the campagin, the evacuation was planned carefully since they couldn't just all get up and run because the turkish soldiers would just run them all down. So they had to do it secretly, they did it under the cover of night, and also used a deviced that would shoot every so offen to make the turks think that the Anzacs where still there and didn't come running down after them. It wasn't till the morning that the turks found out.
