2019 Gallipoli Association Annual Conference

[michaeldr]

GA Annual Conference - 2019

 

After last year's success, The Gallipoli Association's Annual Conference once again takes place at the RAF Club, 128 Piccadilly, Mayfair, London.

See https://www.gallipoli-association.org/events/gallipoli-conference-28-september-2019/ for details of booking & advance payment etc

 

The date for your diary is 28^th September 2019

Registration is from 09:30 and the first speaker will commence at 10.30

 

A wide range of topics and speakers includes:-

 

“Echoes from the Deep: The Wrecks of the Dardanelles Campaign”– Savaş Karakaş

 

“Baby Steps at Gallipoli, 1915” Peter Hart

 

“The Mystery Woman of Gallipoli - Findings of New Research”– Brian Cleary

 

“British Pre-First World War Intelligence on the Dardanelles”- Yusuf Ali Ozkan

 

“Manu Forti - The Hereford Regiment at Suvla”  – Andy Taylor

 

“The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry in the August offensive” Wayne Birch

 

Light lunch refreshments should be available as usual, and the afternoon session will close at 17:15.

The conference day concludes with the option of dinner at 18:30. The latter was very popular last year.

 

Looking forward to another great conference: see you there

[alantwo]

Hi Michael 

 

I’ve reserved a place, see you on 28th September.

 

Kind regards

Alan

[michaeldr]

That's good, Alan

I look forward to hearing all about your trip to the peninsula 

See you there

[michaeldr]

Since I first posted the advance notice of this event it has expanded somewhat and now promises to be quite special indeed.

Ms Aslıhan Kervan of The Gallipoli Historic Site Directorate has kindly agreed to join the list of speakers and she will be describing the work of the Directorate on the peninsula.

H.E. The Turkish Ambassador will be the guest of honour, recognising that nearly half of the speakers this year will be Turkish.

Further details are available here https://www.gallipoli-association.org/events/gallipoli-conference-28-september-2019/

Edited 2 September , 2019 by michaeldr

[green_acorn]

G'day Michael,

 

It looks as though you have an excellent speakers list there. Good luck with the day.

 

Chris

[michaeldr]

Chris,

 

Many thanks for the good wishes for the conference's success

The line-up of speakers does indeed look particularly good and the topics have a nice variety, covering some very interesting aspects both of the 1915-16 campaign and of the battlefield as it is to be seen today. I was also hoping to hear some more about the Brune Park School trip to the peninsula in June; sponsored by the GA, the first reports indicate that their visit went particularly well.

 

I am bitterly disappointed that circumstances have recently conspired to force me to cancel my own trip over to the UK to attend this year. Following surgery after a fall, the best that I can now hope for at the end of September is physiotherapy 

 

regards

Michael

 

[green_acorn]

On 05/09/2019 at 20:41, michaeldr said:

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I am bitterly disappointed that circumstances have recently conspired to force me to cancel my own trip over to the UK to attend this year. Following surgery after a fall, the best that I can now hope for at the end of September is physiotherapy 

 

regards

Michael

 

 

Michael,

 

Very sorry to hear about the fall. I gather it may have been your hip?

 

Chris

[michaeldr]

Chris,

thanks for that.

Not the hip, though that had a painful bruise the size of a dinner plate

It is the arm; I hope to see the surgeon again on Wednesday, but physiotherapy begins only on the 19th

Until that stage is finally completed, then I've one hand that is not very useful at all

Didn't someone say 'worse things happen at sea' 

 

Cheers

Michael

[michaeldr]

Following the implanting in my arm of pieces of what looks like someone's Meccano set, I regret that I will not be lifting any beers in the RAF Club bar this year,

however the Gallipoli Association has my very best wishes for a successful conference;

a near certain outcome given the impressive final list of participating speakers

GA Annual Conf 2019 As at 19 Sep - Speakers and topics.pdf

 

Edited 22 September , 2019 by michaeldr

[michaeldr]

A very tempting Tweet from ORKA Informatics - https://twitter.com/OrkaInformatics

 

Would you want to be onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth on 18th March 1915?

Come to Gallipoli Conference on 28 September 2019-RAF Club London and experience the realtime historical recreation of Dardanelles Naval Attack!

 

 

Another reason to be at the Gallipoli Association conference

Edited 24 September , 2019 by michaeldr

[michaeldr]

If like me you were unable to make it to this year's Gallipoli Association conference,

but you are nevertheless, still anxious to keep up

then you can follow the event via various Tweets

eg: https://twitter.com/Gallipoli100?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^embeddedtimeline|twterm^profile%3AGallipoli100&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gallipoli-association.org%2F

and 

https://twitter.com/PeterHart1915