Achi Baba (Gallipoli)

Achi Baba (Turkish Alçi Tepe) is a height dominating the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. It was the main defensive position of the Ottoman Turkish defences during the First World War Gallipoli campaign of 1915.

View of Achi Baba from the front line trench. Gallipoli, 29 April 1915.

Chronological events about Achi Baba (Gallipoli).

1914

• 28 June, 12 July and 6 August – Chief attacks occurred.

Sources

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Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile The Lonsdale Battalion On This Day. The majority of the events shown on this day (Achi Baba (Gallipoli)), including any supplementary notes, enlistments and statistical data etc., have been primarily sourced from the Lonsdale Battalion War Diary (November 1915 to June 1918), Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) and abridged material from Timeline and Chronology of the Lonsdale Battalion (September 1914 - May 1915), which are sourced from the original DLONS/L/13/13 Lowther Estate Archives. Events from that chronology are reproduced here with kind permission of Jim Lowther (2016). They are identified and referenced separately by their unique DLONS numbers. Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate. All casualty names, numbers, ranks, date of deaths and places of burial/commemoration have been sourced from Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Volume 39, The Border Regiment and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database respectively.