.ARI BURNU
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 Ari Burnu has written itself into Australian legend in blood.   It was on this beach at Anzac troops landed at dawn on April 25m 1915, kilometres off course from their intended target.  The soldiers who weren't taken straight to the ocean floor by their heavy packs staggered up the beach and into the unrelenting fire of the Turkish enemy. The cliffs, with their menacing steepness, where the Turks waited for the landing remain unchanged today. 

But a lawn cemetery with headstones honouring the Anzac soldiers who fell on the beach that morning marks the spot where the spirit of Gallipoli was born.

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Ninety years on the story of Anzac has lost none of its poignancy. And with the passing of the Diggers who fought there, the legend only grows stronger.

On August 7th 1915, 650 of the 1250 Light Horsemen were killed in an assault at Battleship Hill as the Turkish guns mowed them down. The battle yielded seven Victoria Crosses for Australian troops and 4000 men died in the first few days of fighting.
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Australians young and old continue to pay homage to the men who died on the battlefields of Gallipoli.
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