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	Battle of Gallipoli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At Cape Helles, on the tip of the peninsula, and along the Aegean coast, was the 9th Division and, in reserve at Gaba Tepe in the middle of the peninsula was the 19th Division, under the command of Mustafa Kemal.
		The landing was only lightly opposed by scattered Turkish units until Mustafa Kemal, commanding the 19th Division and perceiving the threat posed by the landings, rushed reinforcements to the area in what became a race for the high ground.
		The Helles landing was made by the 29th Division under the command of Major-General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, on five beaches in an arc about the tip of the peninsula, designated from east to west as S, V, W, X and Y beach.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Battle_of_Gallipoli (4391 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Gallipoli Landings at Helles and Anzac Cove, 1915
		The landing at Cape Helles on the peninsula's southern tip, which was badly mismanaged by Aylmer Hunter-Weston, was at five locations ('Y', 'X', 'W', 'V' and 'S' Beaches) and consisted of 35,000 men.
		Landings had been achieved at Cape Helles and Ari Burnu, but advances had not been feasible (or, in Hunter-Weston's case, attempted) at either.
		Three days after the 25 April landings Hamilton determined to extend the Allied position in the south with attacks directed towards Krithia to which the Turkish force at Helles had retired.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/landings_apr15.htm (1196 words)

	Helles memorial, Turkey
		The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25th-26th April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, and area soon known as Anzac.
		On the 6th August, further landings were made at Suvla, just north of Anzac, and the climax of the campaign came in early August when simultaneous assaults were launcehd on all three fronts.
		April 1915 and was landed at Helles Beach, on the Gallipoli peninsula on 25th.
	www.geocities.com /ptrue84020/helles.html (1214 words)

	Amphibious Warfare: First World War
		Hamilton's plan involved an amphibious landing by the British 29th Division on five beaches at Cape Helles, a decision driven by a lack of beach space and a shortage of ship-to-shore lift.
		Both were designed to cover the main landing beaches farther south on the cape, and to potentially threaten the lines of communication of their Turkish defenders.
		Units from the five-division IX Corps were to land at Suvla Bay, to the north of the Anzac beach, on 6 August 1915.
	www.exwar.org /Htm/8000PopC5.htm (3346 words)

	Ezekiel Gummery
		They were aware that their job was to land on the Gallipoli Peninsula, and on 21st April they received definite orders that the 29th Division was to land at several beaches around the end of the Peninsula near Cape Helles.
		The fighting of April 25th and 26th had secured the landing at Cape Helles, but the losses were heavy and the British forces were still far from their objective of Achi Baba.
		The Helles Memorial was erected at Cape Helles on the south west tip of the Gallipoli Peninsula to commemorate the dead of the Gallipoli campaign.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~gomery/ezgumm.html (2283 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - 1914-1924 'British interests; British honour; British obligations'
		Originally, all three divisions were to be landed at Cape Helles, but Hamilton then reasoned that a landing further up the peninsula would allow the force to reach the Narrows with greater swiftness.
		They had suffered terrible losses during the British landings, and their numerically inferior force was now vulnerably stretched across the Gallipoli peninsula, having to deal with six Greek divisions near Bulair, two Australasian divisions near Ari Burnu and one Royal Naval Division around Cape Helles.
		The Benbow battalion was landed south of ‘A’ beach in order to support their precarious position, whilst the Collingwood battalion was landed north of Cape Tekke, to strike the Turks defending ‘B’ beach in the flank.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?p=3314361 (6558 words)

	First World War
		Extract from the war diary of the 1st Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers during its landing at 'W Beach' on the Gallipoli peninsula, 24-30 April 1915.
		One of the bloodiest of the Allied landings on 25 April 1915 took place at 'W Beach', situated on the southern tip of the Gallipoli peninsula at Cape Helles.
		In this extract, the hazards of the landing are tersely described: 'heavy fire from machine guns and rifles'; 'heavy casualties'; 'several men hit in boats and in water before getting ashore'.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /pathways/firstworldwar/battles/p_fusiliers.htm (116 words)

	Additional Newspaper Coverage
		Our finest troops were sent to perform the difficult task of effecting a landing, and that they managed to do this in the face of the appalling fire which they encountered and other great difficulties speaks volumes for the tenacity and bravery of the men.
		When the Clyde approached the land she was subjected to a terrific fire, but she replied effectively with machine guns.
		The British while landing had in addition been subjected to an extremely heavy machine gun and shrapnel fire from the fort to the right and the hill to the left.
	www.grimshaworigin.org /Webpages2/CecilGrimshawNewsSuppl.htm (15347 words)

	GALLIBOLI WARS
		Some groups of Australian had panetrated in land for a mile or more, but most of them were still on the beach among the rocks and the scrub of the ravines.
		Battles at Cape Helles: Under General Hamilton, 5 separete landing were done to toe of penisula.
		A sailor had landed his boad to the shore, realized that the passengers all were death in his boat.
	www.iit.edu /~agunsal/canakkale/canwar.html (3831 words)

	Anzac Day Turkey
		While the 29th Division landed there on five separate beaches, a subsidiary landing would be made by the ANZAC Corps about twenty kilometres up the coast, north of Gaba Tepe.
		The landings were originally scheduled to take place on 23 April, but weather conditions led to a delay of two days.
		From Lemnos, the troops would be carried to the landing zone on warships (in the case of the 3rd Brigade) or on merchant ships, loaded into ships' boats and towed inshore by steamboats, and eventually rowed to the beaches.
	www.anzac-turkey.com /gallandings.htm (1167 words)

	Charles Bean's first report - The Anzac Landing at Gallipoli \| Visit Gallipoli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Turks in the trenches facing the landing had run, but those on the other flank and on the ridges and gullies still kept up a fire upon the boats coming in shore, and that portion of the covering force which landed last came under a heavy fire before it reached the beach.
		Their leaders had a general idea of where they were intended to go, and once landed, each subordinate commander made his way there by what seemed to him to be the shortest road.
		The first relief was when a small force of Indian mountain artillery, which landed with us, managed to drag its guns into position just behind a part of our line, which was suffering especially, and began firing salvos over their heads in the direction from which shells were coming.
	www.anzacsite.gov.au /1landing/bean.html (3891 words)

	Mapping Gallipoli: Cape Helles 1915 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In late September and early October, the Second Army was gradually withdrawn from Cape Helles.
		There was no opportunity for British forces to advance at Cape Helles, or on any of the other fronts, and a cruel winter had closed in.
		As a result, the Cape Helles area was evacuated by the British in January 1916.
	www.awm.gov.au /gmaps/turkish/helles.asp (155 words)

	FOCUS on ANZACS and Gallipoli Battle
		This illusion did not survive the landing which was strongly opposed by a Turkish company of perhaps 200 men, many form the local area.
		It is one of the many ironies of the Gallipoli campaign that the advance of the Anzacs on the day of the landing was opposed by one of the most dynamic military and political leaders of this century, colonel Mustafa Kemal, later to be immortalized as Kemal Ataturk, the "Father of the Turks".
		Kemal deduced that the landing was a major threat and dispatched a regiment, with the rest of his division to follow.
	www.focusmm.com /anzac_02.htm (1701 words)

	Maps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		They were supposed to land near Gaba Tepe, but by mistake in the dark were landed instead at the place we now call A.N.Z.A.C. Cove.
		The British were taken to the Cape Helles area and landed at 5 different beaches.
		Landing at Suvla Bay would help to draw attention away from Chunuk Bair and allow the New Zealanders to capture it.
	www.mmc.school.nz /pages/links/gallipoli/html/maps1.htm (1374 words)

	Battle of Gallipoli - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The invasion plan of April 25, 1915 was for the 29th Division to land at Helles on the tip of the peninsula and then advance upon the forts at Kilitbahir.
		The Anzacs were confronted by a treacherous, confusing tangle of ravines and spurs that descended from the heights of the Sarı Bayır range to the sea.
		In addition to the killed, those who died of wounds and wounded listed in the table, many soldiers became sick in the unsanitary environment of the peninsula, mainly from enteric fever, dysentery and diarrhoea.
	www.wiki-mirror.us /index.php/Battle_of_Gallipoli (4805 words)

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		It made one feel really that, in the words of General Sherman, "War is hell," and it seemed damnable that it should be in the power of one man, even if be he the German Emperor, to decree that all these men should be mutilated or killed.
		Owing to the impossibility of landing the transport, all the wounded had to be carried; often for a distance of a mile and a half, in a blazing sun, and through shrapnel and machine-gun fire.
		When we first landed, while everything was in confusion, each man catered for himself; but it was a lonely business, and not conducive to health.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/8/9/15896/15896-8.txt (22148 words)

	GALLIPOLI WARS
		A sailor had landed his boat to the shore, realized that all were dead in his boat.
		Many times the soldiers had tried to get out from the bridges both side of the ship to land on the beach, but each attempt was more bloody than the previous one.
		It was significant that Anzacs refused to use gas masks later, believing that Turks were fair soldiers.
	www.transbalkan.net /gw.htm (3096 words)

	Royal Naval Division Battalion badges
		The Div started to embark for Lemnos at Devonport 06/02/15 and by 01/03/15 the rest of the Div (except the training Depot) were on their way to Lemnos.
		The Div re-embarked for Mudros 08/04/15 and were landed Helles, Gallipoli 25/04/15.
		Landing at Cape Helles (Anson and Plymouth Bns)
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-asstd/rnd.htm (637 words)

	MaritimeDigital Archive Encyclopedia - Home > 003c Surface vessels (1881-1904) > Battleships - Pre-Dreadnoughts > ...
		HMS Albion was a British Canopus-class pre-Dreadnought battleship of approximately 14,000 tonnes, with a main armament of 4 x 12 inch (305 mm) guns and was built by the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Co. Ltd, launched in 1898 and commissioned in 1901, serving on the China Station until 1905.
		Further refitting was done while with the reserve at Portsmouth with reduced crew in 1908 - 09; on returning to the fleet she served as the parent ship for the 4th Division at the Nore and with the home fleet from May 1912 and again refitted at Chatham dockyard.
		Commanded by Captain Thomas Lawrie Shelford, Goliath was part of the Allied fleet during naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign, supporting the landing at X Beach during the landing at Cape Helles on 25 April 1915.
	www.ibiblio.org /maritime/Newspaper/index.php?cat=1091 (1265 words)

	Malvern's Roll of Honour - Albert Henry Vaughan
		Vaughan's battalion landed at Avonmouth in February 1915 and was one of those that formed the 29th Division, which despite it's high number was made up solely of regular units.
		The regimental history states: "The orders for the 29th Division were to effect a landing on the end of the Peninsula, in the neighbourhood of Cape Helles.
		The leading platoon along with the Brigade staff suffered heavily casualties on V Beach and it was decided to land the rest of the company at W Beach.
	www.malvernremembers.org.uk /HPVaughan_AH.html (741 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Second Battle of Krithia, 1915
		The Allied force used as the basis of the attack was sited at a beachhead on Cape Helles operating under British commander Aylmer Hunter-Weston.
		Some 20,000 troops had survived the landing at Cape Helles on 25 April but losses during the first attempt upon Krithia had reduced this total to just 14,000.
		The latter attacks were nevertheless an indicator of Enver's determination to resist further Allied advances north of Cape Helles.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/krithia2.htm (617 words)

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		In each scenario the British are trying to seize the highest ground on the map, but elevation confers a defensive benefit as the attackers move up each contour line.
		The most competitive scenario is Cape Helles, which is also the smallest.
		The Anzac Cove breakout failed, the Suvla bay landing got to the foothills and no further, the Fleet lost two battleships and a few minesweepers and washed out back to the Med.
	grognard.com /reviews1/gallipoli.txt (409 words)

	Anzac Day Tours to Gallipoli in Turkey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Though the events in Anatolia were a relative sideshow to the carnage of modern warfare on the western front, the Gallipoli landings were part of a strategy to break the bloody stalemate that the battlefields of Western Europe had become.
		The bold stroke that Churchill had hoped for failed and the allied expedition landed on April 25 1915 only to become involved in an 8-month stalemate and eventual withdrawal at the end of the same year.
		During the night the destroyers bearing the ANZAC troops had drifted and they were landed to the North of Gabatebe, which was the intended beachhead.
	www.backpacker.co.uk /anzacdayhistory.htm (988 words)

	The River Clyde landing
		An impression of the landing from the River Clyde by Artist Charles Dixon.
		It was purchased by public subscription as a memorial to the town's Gallipoli Victoria Cross winner, Able Seaman, William Charles Williams, who was killed in action at the V beach landings 25th April 1915.
		At about 1100 hours Major Jarrett with half of Y Company landed and met the same fate as the rest of us, after which no further landing was attempted.
	ww1.osborn.ws /river_clyde_landing.htm (1901 words)

	About Turkey, Tours in Turkey, Holiday in Turkey
		Since then the land on which this fierce battle broke years ago became nearly a pilgrimage place for young and old Australians, New Zealanders and also Turks.
		Tragically, these high hopes could not override the difficulties of mounting an amphibious landing on a hostile shore, one of the most complicated operations of war.
		We tend naturally to concentrate on the events at Anzac the subsidiary landing some 25 kilometers north of the main British landing at Cape Helles.
	www.ekoltravel.com /turkey/anzac_sprit.html (1809 words)

	63rd (Royal Naval) Division. 1914-1919.:When the Navy Fought in the Trenches:Highland Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The two other Bdes (1st and 2nd RN Bdes) embarked from Dover 04/10/14, landed at Dunkirk, detrained at Antwerp 06/09/14 and joined the RM Bde in the trenches.
		The Div withdrew to St Gilles Waes 09/10/14, and began entraining for Ostend, except for about 1,500 men of the 1st RN Bde, who failed to cross the Scheld River in time and crossed into Holland and were interned for the rest of the war (A few did manage to "escape" back to Britain).
		This was a bitter pill for the Div to swallow, as this was equivalent to the Army High Command saying that they were not good enough or had not fought hard enough to earn the right to be part of the Army of Occupation, which the sailors new was "Army bull".
	www.iprom.co.uk /archives/caithness/63rdrn.htm (1305 words)

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