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	Second Battle of Krithia
		The village of Krithia and neighbouring hill of Achi Baba had to be captured in order for the British to advance up the Gallipoli peninsula to the forts that controlled passage of the Dardanelles straits.
		Following the failure of the First Battle of Krithia the exhausted soldiers of the British 29th Division halted to consolidate their positions.
		As for the first battle, the plan was for a general advance on a broad front across the peninsula.
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	First Battle of Krithia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Battle of Krithia was the first Allied advance of the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I.
		At that time, the first day objectives of the village of Krithia and the nearby hill of Achi Baba were virtually undefended.
		The scale and duration of the battle was minor compared to later fighting but the First Battle of Krithia was one of the most significant of the campaign as it proved that the original British assumption of a swift victory over an indifferent enemy was grossly mistaken.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Battle_of_Krithia (749 words)

	Battle of Gallipoli -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The troops of the 29th Division were still exhausted and unnerved by the battle for the beaches and for Seddülbahir village, captured after heavy fighting on the 26th.
		This was the first major assault at Helles and gained about a quarter of a mile on a wide front at the now customary enormous cost in casualties.
		In the (Click link for more info and facts about Third Battle of Krithia) Third Battle of Krithia on June 4 all thought of a decisive breakthrough was gone and the plans for battle had reverted to trench warfare with objectives being measured in hundreds of metres.
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	First World War.com - Battles - The First Battle of Krithia, 1915
		Hamilton had originally intended that Achi Baba should be seized on the first day of the landings; convinced of its great strategic value he was henceforth persistent in striving for its capture (some present-day Australian historians argue that the feature was by no means as important as Hamilton believed).
		Once Krithia was in Allied hands Hamilton intended to continue to push northwards, removing Turk defenders from the heights defending the Dardanelles Straits.
		Allied casualties during the battle were heavy, with approximately 3,000 losses from the original force of 14,000.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/krithia1.htm (530 words)

	Gallipoli 25 April - 10 May 1915
		The First Battle of Krithia thus began with a desultory bombardment at 8am, and the British on the left flank moved wearily forward against what appeared to be equally weary and broken opposition.
		On the extreme left, at Gully Spur, the 1st Bn, the Border Regiment of 87th Brigade actually broke in the face of a counterattack with the bayonet, which itself was broken by off-shore bombardment from HMS Queen Elizabeth.
		By 6pm, the battle was called off, the Allies having suffered 3,000 casualties of the 14,000 men engaged.
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	Battle of Krithia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There were three World War I battles fought over the village of Krithia during the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915.
		In each battle British forces attempted to capture the village and were defeated by the Turkish defenders.
		Second Battle of Krithia - May 6 - 8
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		In the Third Battle of Krithia on June 4 all thought of a decisive breakthrough was gone and the plans for battle had reverted to trench warfare with objectives being measured in hundreds of metres.
		At Anzac, an attack on the Turkish trenches at Lone Pine by the infantry brigades of the Australian 1st Division was a rare victory for the Anzacs.
		Defeat at the Battle of Romani marked the end of that ambition and for the remainder of the war the British were on the offensive in the Middle East.
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	First World War.com - Battles - The Third Battle of Krithia, 1915
		With only modest progress accompanying the Allied attack at the Second Battle of Krithia in the first week of May 1915, regional Commander-in-Chief Sir Ian Hamilton urged his local commander Aylmer Hunter-Weston at Helles to maintain a policy of "ceaseless initiative" against the Turkish lines stretched some 7km across the southern tip of the peninsular.
		Battle was duly renewed at noon on a sunny, breezy 4 June and was the result of a joint initiative between Hunter-Weston and the newly-arrived (15 May) French commander Henri Gouraud.
		The attack was launched in two waves: the first intended to capture the Turkish front line with the second promptly leap-frogging them.
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	First Guards: Always at the Forefront
		First Guards (2 Punjab) was raised in 1762 as the 10th battalion of the Coastal Sepoys and has been re-designated eighteen times since then.
		During the First World War, it won the battle honours for the battles of Loos, France Flanders, Helles, Krithia, Gallipoli, Suez Canal and Egypt in 1915; the battles of Defence Kut-el-Amara, Baghdad, Mesopotamia and NWFP (India) in 1917; the battles of Megiddo, Sharon, Nablus and Palestine in 1918 and the battle of Afghanistan in 1919.
		It became the first infantry battalion to be helilifted as an entire battalion group during counter-insurgency operations in Nagaland in 1969-70.
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	British 29th Division - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It made the first landings in April of 1915 and was among the last to leave in January of 1916.
		In this First Battle of Krithia an advance up the peninsula was made but the division was halted short of its objective and suffered around 3,000 casualties.
		At Suvla, the Battle of Scimitar Hill on August 21 was the final push of the failed August Offensive.
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	Battle of Gallipoli
		The Battle of Gallipoli was one of the most famous World War 1 Battles.
		On February 19, the first attack during the Battle of Gallipoli on the Dardanelles began when a large fleet of British and French vessels, including the British battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth, bombarded Turkish artillery along the coast.
		A new attack during the Battle of Gallipoli was launched on March 18, targeted at the narrowest point of the Dardanelles where the straits were just a mile wide.
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	BATTLE OF GALLIPOLI FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On February_19, the first attack on the Dardanelles began when a large fleet of British and French vessels, including the British battleship HMS ''Queen Elizabeth'', bombarded Turkish artillery along the coast.
		In the Third_Battle_of_Krithia on June_4 all thought of a decisive breakthrough was gone and the plans for battle had reverted to trench warfare with objectives being measured in hundreds of metres.
		The repeated failure of the Allies to capture Krithia or make any progress on the Helles front led Hamilton to pursue a new plan for the campaign which resulted in what is now called the Battle_of_Sari_Bair.
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	Pink Farm Cemetery
		Three cemeteries grew up round it, beginning with the First Battle of Krithia (28th April, 1915); and No. 3, which is Plot III and part of Plot IV of the present cemetery, contained at the Armistice 139 graves.
		It is almost on the top of a long ridge stretching to the village of Krithia.
		Pink Farm Cemetery is south west of the Redoubt, on the road from Sedd el Bahr to Geoghegan's Bluff.
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	Timeline of the Battle of Gallipoli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The period of the battle proper is considered to be 19 February, 1915 to 9 January, 1916, however a number of events took place between August 1914 and January 1915 that are relevant to the battle.
		Helles: Battle of Krithia Vineyard diversion commences with an attack by the 88th Brigade of the British 29th Division.
		Anzac: Battle of Lone Pine diversion commences at 6.00 pm with the Australian 1st Division capturing Turkish trenches.
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	BATTLEFIELD TOUR APRIL - MAY 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The third battle of Krithia was conducted on 4 June, Haricot Redoubt on 21 June, Gully Ravine between 28 June and 5 July, and Achi Baba Nullah on 12-13 July, where although gaining local success the Allies failed to achieve a breakthrough.
		In the first three weeks of the campaign he was a familiar sight, cheerful and oblivious of danger.
		The first Victoria Cross to be awarded at Anzac was won on 1 May at the southern end of the ridge by Lance Corporal Walter Parker, 33, a stretcher bearer with the Portsmouth Battalion, RND.
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	First Battle of Krithia - Definition up Erdmond.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		was the first Allied advance of the Battle_of_Gallipoli during World_War_I.
		Starting at Helles on April_28, three days after the initial landings, the attack broke down due to poor leadership and planning, lack of communications and exhaustion and demoralisation of the troops.
		By the afternoon of April_27 the Allies were able to make an advance of about two miles up the peninsula towards Krithia in readiness for an assault on the following day.
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	First Battle of Krithia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At that time, the first day objectives of the village ofKrithia and the nearby hill of Achi Baba were virtually undefended.
		The scale and duration of the battle wasminor compared to later fighting but the First Battle of Krithia was one of the most significant of the campaign as it provedthat the original British assumption of a swift victory over an indifferent enemy was grossly mistaken.
		Thereafter Helles wouldbecome the scene of numerous attrition battles and success would be measured by an advance of a hundred yards or the capture of atrench.
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		Adams was the first of these three to publish his memoirs of service with the First Battalion and his was the only record to be published in book form while the war was till being fought.
		This book gives a memorable account of that five-day battle, which was essentially a conflict of man against man, with most of the commanders as bewildered by the orders of their superiors as they were by the actions of the enemy.
		The 369th was the first Allied regiment to cross the Rhine in the German offensive.
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		The second battle for Krithia began on 6 May with a daring daylight frontal attack by the allies.
		The battle for the heights was decided on the main ridge line where the Anzacs and Turks fought over a knoll called Baby 700.
		The regiment’s first encounter with the realities of war on the Gallipoli Peninsula was mild in relation to subsequent events on the Western Front.
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		First Battle of Krithia:-Allies advance on Krithia but attack peters out due to disorganisation, lack of communication and insufficient artillery support.
		The allied offensive on Krithia and Achi Baba fails despite an heroic advance by the Australians on the 8th May 1915.
		Gains are not exploited and the battle dies away after heavy casualties (particularly in the R. Naval Division and the 42th Division)(Sub.
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	Gallipoli
		Gallipoli is the most frequently-used name for the peninsula to the west of the Dardenelles Straits, and the fighting that took place there between British and French troops of the Allies against Turkish troops between April 1915 and January 1916.
		Most famously, it was where the soldiers of the first ANZAC - the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps - went first into action during the Great War.
		There are a number of small settlements, of which Krithia in the south and Bulair in the north are the most important.
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		From the start of the First World War, CEF units were required to maintain a daily account of their "Actions in the Field." This log was called a War Diary.
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	The Battles of 1914-1918
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	Hill 10 Cemetery
		The Attack on "W" Hill (Ismail Oglu Tepe) and the first Action of Hill 60 followed on the 21st August; the Suvla force and the Anzac troops were fighting to strengthen their point of junction.
		The second Action of Hill 60, by which the capture of the Hill was completed, was fought on the 27th August.
		- His MC was for the First Battle of Krithia.
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	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Battle of Gallipoli
		At first the landing was only lightly opposed by scattered Turkish units however Mustafa Kemal, commanding the 19th Division, perceiving the threat posed by the landings, rushed reinforcements to the area in what became a race for the high ground.
		See Also: Battle of Krithia Vineyard — Battle of Lone Pine — Battle of Chunuk Bair — Battle of the Nek — Battle of Scimitar Hill — Battle of Hill 60
		Amongst the generals, Gallipoli marked the end for Hamilton and Stopford but Hunter-Weston was granted another opportunity to bleed the VIII Corps on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
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	First World War.com - Battles - The Gallipoli Front
		First World War.com - Battles - The Gallipoli Front
		This section contains details of the battles and actions fought on the Gallipoli Front during the First World War.
		Thus the Entente Powers' initial attempts at storming the Dardanelles solely via naval means alone is documented, as are subsequent attempts at winning control of the region by land means - ultimately without success.
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	Timeline of the Gallipoli Campaign
		3rd Battle of Krithia : slight advance made in the Helles sector at heavy cost (Allied 6,500 / Turkish 9,000).
		Battle of Scimitar Hill at Suvla and first attack on Hill 60 begin.
		First autumn storm causes damage to Allied harbours at Suvla and Anzac
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