Formation
The 11th Battalion was raised within weeks of the declaration of war in August 1914. It was among the first infantry units raised during World War I for the First Australian Imperial Force.
The battalion began training at Bellvue, W.A and at the end of October sailed from Fremantle on the SS Ascanius and SS Medic. After stopovers in the Cocos Islands and Colombo it arrived at Mena Camp in Cairo, Egypt at the start of December. The battalion trained in Egypt until early March 1915 when it sailed on SS Suffolk and SS Nizam from Alexandria, its destination unknown. En route, the orders were opened and it was revealed that the battalion was heading to the island of Lemnos in the Aegean sea, in preparation for the Landing at Anzac Cove.
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