Seventeen-year-old Thomas ‘Tolly’ Johnson lies about his age to enlist with his brother Bevan in the Great War and finds himself at Gallipoli, caught up in the chaos and the key battles that shaped the Anzac legend.
Episode 1
As dawn breaks on the 25th of April, 1915, seventeen-year-old Thomas ‘Tolly’ Johnson and his brother Bevan are thrust into a chaotic, confusing battle for the Turkish heights when they land on the Gallipoli peninsula. They discover what it is to kill and to fear being killed. The landing proves to be a disaster, triggering an eight-month stalemate where thousands will lose their lives.