Gallipoli Exhibition: Andrew McLeod visits the History Trust's Torrens Parade Ground Museum in the Adelaide City region of South Australia

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, we remember them. On Remembrance Day we stop to consider the sacrifices made by Australians in war. And what better way than to visit the History Trust's exhibition at the Torrens Parade Ground.

I was fascinated by the many South Australian stories to emerge from the bloody Gallipoli campaign like the tragic tale of Philip de Quetteville Robin, a famous Norwood footballer at the time.

Some of them had orders to go like hell for the third ridge and they did," explained the History Trust's Kate Walsh. "He and Arthur Blackburn made it to the ridge and actually saw a glimpse of the Dardenaelles which was the objective for that day."

It was as far as any of the Australian troops would get in the entire eight-month campaign.

"He was killed very sadly three days later and was the first South Australian footballer to lose his life at Gallipoli." Said Kate.

When you read the stories and examine this amazing collection of memorabilia you realise how important Gallipoli still is to many South Australian families. Some of the exhibits bring home the sadness of war for blokes barely old enough to get on one of today's AFL rookie lists.

Blokes like Hartley Pascoe Harris who used the back pages of his bible as a diary to record the horrors of war. And blokes like Clive Wood, who kept his momentos in an old tobacco tin.

"He recalled many of the soldiers drowned at the landing because they hopped off the boats and had their heavy packs on," said Kate. "They were in waist high water or deeper and they couldn't cope and drowned. I think that particular memory of Anzac stayed with him for life."

But every year on Anzac Day, Clive would bring out his capstan tin with all its memories and share with his daughter Anne some of the stories of Gallipoli. Perhaps he told her about South Australian engineer, Stanley Holm Watson. He supervised the construction of what became a major landmark at Anzac Cove, Watson's Pier where supplies were brought in. But the construction owed much to Watson's amazing pile driver.

"Watson found an unexploded Turkish shell on the beach and he says in his diaries... 'With great fear emptied it of the powder and then found shrapnel on the beach, filled the shell and used it as the monkey weight on the pile driver to build the pier. It's a wonderful example of Aussie ingenuity." Said Kate.

A replica of Watson's pile driver is just one of the many South Australian stories from Gallipoli in the exhibition at the Torrens Parade Ground.

Gallipoli - The South Australian Story
History Trust of SA
Torrens Parade Ground
Victoria Drive
9.30 am - 3.30pm weekdays