"I could hardly struggle ashore and when I did the first thing I saw was Beck sitting on a stone, roaring with laughter at us. Billy Beck was the first New Zealander to get on to Gallipoli.”
[Fenwick p8] [It is thought that Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund Robert Bowler was the first New Zealander to land at Anzac Cove in Gallipoli, having landed with the Australians at 4.30 am]
Dates:
Sunday, April 25, 1915
Media Image:
Caption:
Capt. Beck, D.A.D.O.S., the first New Zealander ashore at Gallipoli [according to Fenwick], at daily ablutions in Egypt.
Source:
Auckland War Memorial Museum: PH-ALB-337
Casualty Flag:
No
Conflict:
Group:
Gallipoli
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