Crowds in Bury came out today to pay tribute to those who took part in the Gallipoli Campaign.
A service of remembrance was held at Bury Parish Church followed by a wreath laying ceremony and a parade to remember all those who took part and lost their lives at Gallipoli.
Soldiers from the Lancashire Fusiliers took part in landings on W beach to the west of Cape Helles during the First World War.
At dawn on the 25 April 1915 soldiers landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in what is now modern-day Turkey. The landings came at heavy loss of life and the eight month campaign was one of the costliest of the war.
The Lancashire Fusiliers were famously awarded ‘Six VCs before breakfast’ and W Beach was renamed Lancashire Landing in honour of the Battalion that captured it.
