With Anzac Day approaching, Saga Cruises have the perfect opportunity to commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign and gain a deep understanding of the role of the Mediterranean during World War I.

Cruise the Mediterranean on board the Saga Sapphire for 31 nights, sailing roundtrip from Southampton departing 5 April 2015. This unique opportunity to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign is exclusively available to book in Australia and New Zealand through Zeppelin Travel.

GALLIPOLI REMEMBERED
31 NIGHT MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE ABOARD SAGA SAPPHIRE DEPARTING 5 APRIL 2015
Southampton ~ Ferrol ~ Cartagena ~ Palma ~ Tunis ~ Piraeus ~ Syros ~ Thessaloniki ~ Lemnos ~ Canakkale ~ Istanbul ~ Anzac Cove ~ Iraklion ~ Valletta ~ Gibraltar ~ Southampton

GUEST LECTURERS 
Dr Robert Likeman was born in England and educated at Oxford University, where he studied Classics, Oriental Languages and Medicine. He came to Australia in 1972 and worked for seven years as a Government Medical Officer in Papua New Guinea. Dr Likeman served in the Australian Army for 24 years, which included three operational deployments overseas. He retired with the rank of Colonel, and his final posting was as Director of Army Health at Army headquarters in Canberra. In 2001, he was awarded the Conspicuous Service Medal. He retired from the Army in 2002. In 2003, Slouch Hat Publications published his “Men of the Ninth: a history of the Ninth Australian Field Ambulance,” a unit of which he had been the last Commanding officer. He is the author of 7 books, 6 of them on military history and biography. The best known of these is “Gallipoli Doctors”, published in 2010, which won the Silver medal in the New York Independent Publishers awards

Prof G Dennis Shanks is the Director of the Army Malaria Institute in Brisbane and Adjunct Professor of Population Health at the University of Queensland. He previously served for 20 years as a medical officer in the US Army and holds the rank of Colonel. He has made a study of the effects of disease on the outcome of military campaigns, particularly malaria, and more recently has been researching the causes of mortality during the 1918 pandemic of influenza. In 2013 he delivered the John Thomson Oration in the University of Queensland on the health of Australian soldiers during the Palestine campaign of 1917-18.

Peter Headley has been lecturing on cruises and conducting military history tours for a number of years. He has now retired from a multifaceted career in the Export Sector, which involved him in cooperation with the Australian Trade Commission, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Senate. Peter has qualifications in archaeology, as well as in Economics, Accounting and Management. He also lectures regularly on historical subjects for the Workers Education Association in Sydney.