Gallipoli Day at the Staffordshire Regiment Museum, Whittington Barracks, Lichfield

The 25th April is commemorated throughout the U.K., Eire, Australasia and other parts of the world, as ANZAC/Gallipoli Day. Over half a million men died in this ill fated campaign in Turkey during World War One. To mark this event, the Staffordshire Regiment Museum, in conjunction with the Gallipoli Association, a free Gallipoli Day.

The day will include

• Free access for under 16s to the Museum, with displays on the involvement of the Staffordshire Regiment
• The trench will be re-configured to how it would be in Turkey in 1915 
• Free, bitesize talks on the Gallipoli Campaign and the Staffords 
• Re-enactors displaying uniforms and weapons of campaign 
• Volunteers to answer questions on the campaign 
• Quiz sheets and activities

For further details and organisations that would like to be involved should contact Ian Binnie on Warwickfus@btinternet.com