Imbros & Gallipoli Revealed Book - Order Now

The new book - From Imbros Over The Sea - Imbros & Gallipoli Revealed - can now be ordered directly online.

The book is available to order from the Imvrian Society of Melbourne. The book is priced at $35 plus postage. Please Note - The book will be shipped or available for pick up in November 2023.

The book can be order via the following weblink - From Imbros Over The Sea - Imbros & Gallipoli Revealed Book - Order

Alternatively the book can be ordered directly by scanning the following QR code:

Imbros & Gallipoli Revealed - The Book

Imbros played a major role in the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16. The safest base close to the Peninsula, Imbros and its harbours would host hundreds of ships and thousands of Allied soldiers and sailors throughout the nearly twelve months of the campaign, including many Australians. It would be transformed by the infrastructure needed for a major military and naval base. these new arrivals would spread across the Island beyond their main camps at Kephalos Bay, viewing the mountains and valleys of Imbros, crossing its farmlands rich in produce, visiting its towns and villages an meeting its people.

This book and its accompanying Imbros & Gallipoli Revealed Exhibition brings to life the story of the life the story of the link between Imbros and Gallipoli for the first time, from records and photographs held in archives across the world.

The book comprises some 132 pages telling the Imbros-Gallipoli story in detail, includes a detailed timeline listing key events concerning Imbros connection to Gallipoli, references for further reading and is illustrated with 80 photographs and 3 original maps from the Exhibition.

For more information on the book and its associated exhibition go to the following link - From Imbros Over The Sea - Imbros & Gallipoli Revealed Book - Information

Jim Claven

Author & Secretary Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee

Annual Armistice of Mudros Commemoration at Melbourne’s Shrine – All Welcome

All are welcome to join with the Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee in commemoration of the Armistice of Mudros. The annual service will be held in the Sanctuary of Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance, commencing at 11.45am on Tuesday 31 October.

Those wishing to attend may join with members of the Committee who will gather at 11.15am at the Lemnos Tree near the Shrine forecourt before proceeding to the Shrine Sanctuary.

This commemorative service marks the 105th anniversary of the coming into effect of the Armistice of Mudros at noon on the 31st October 1918. The Armistice was signed the previous day by representatives of the Entente Powers, represented by the British Admiral Arthur Calthorpe, and those of the Ottoman Empire.

The negotiations and signing ceremony took place aboard the Royal Navy warship HMS Agamemnon anchored in Mudros Bay in the northern Aegean Island of Lemnos (pictured above). HMS Agamemnon had played a major role as part of the Naval forces in the Gallipoli campaign and the Island of Lemnos as the advance base throughout the campaign.

Now both Lemnos and HMS Agamemnon played host to the signing of the Armistice which brought to an end the First World War across the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. For tens of thousands of Australian soldiers across the region, the First World War was now at an end.

In many respects the war that for Australia had begun as the troops departed Lemnos’ Mudros Bay for Gallipoli was now formally ended in the same waters.

Following the proposal by the Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee and its support by the Shrine Governors, in 2019 the Committee dedicated the Memorial Tree B37 in the Shrine gardens (pictured above and below) and unveiled the above plaque in recognition of all Australian service personnel who served on the Lemnos during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16. This is now a permanent commemorative memorial to the role of Lemnos at Melbourne’s iconic Shrine of Remembrance. The Committee thanks the Shrine Governors for their support for this initiative.

Those wishing to lay a wreath or seeking more information on the service should contact Jim Claven via email – jimclaven@yahoo.com.au

Lemnos & Gallipoli Revealed Book Donation

The Committee encourages all seeking to lay a wreath to consider purchasing and laying a copy of our commemorative book - Lemnos & Gallipoli Revealed - for the price of $50. This book can then be gifted to an institution of your own choice (such as a school, university, public library, RSL club etc). 

To do so please contact our President - Lee Tarlamis OAM MP - via email (lee.tarlamis@hotmail.com). You can deposit $50 into our Committee account (Account Name: Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee Inc; Bank: Bendigo Bank; Account No: 188010037; BSB No: 633000) and insert your name and "LGR Book" into the deposit name.

Jim Claven, Secretary Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee