In 1965, Largs veterans of the Gallipoli campaign from the Great War amassed at the war memorial to pay tribute to those who had died during the landings in 1915.

The men were members of the Bute Mountain Battery: Adam Allan, John Anderson, David Brown, James Cochrane, Archibald McIntyre, Hugh McIntyre, James Mackay, Hill Marshall, William Marshall, John Ramage, John Stewart, George Cruickshank, William Thomson, and William R Tyre.

Also at the memorial were J.Dodds, who was with the Royal Scots Fusiliers at Gallipoli, and Councillor George Barr, of the 52nd Division.

An interesting souvenir of the Gallipoli Landings was in possession of Mr James Cochrane. This was an 'Order of the Day' issued to each soldier aboard the landing ships by Major General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, who commanded the 29th Division.

It states: "The Major-General Commanding congratulates the Division on being selected for an enterprise the success of which will have a decisive effect on the war. The eyes of the world are upon us and your deeds will live in history.

"To us now is given the opportunity of avenging our friends and relatives who have fallen in France and Flanders. Our comrades there willingly gave their lives in thousands and tens of thousands for our King and Country, and by their glorious courage and dogged tenacity they defeated the invaders and broke the German offensive.

"We also must be prepared to suffer hardships, But if each man feels, as is true, that on him individually, however small or great his task, rests the success or failure of the Expedition, and therefore the honour of the Empire, and welfare of his own folk at home, we are certain to win through to glorious victory.

"In Nelson's time it was England, now it is the whole of the British Empire, which expects that each man of us will do his duty."