by Mitch Brunke | Feb 3, 2020
Less than 24 hours after the landing, the Gallipoli expedition leader Sir Ian Hamilton was sound asleep in his cabin aboard the warship Queen Elizabeth. Both the British and the Anzac landings had been brutal as thousands died. At Cape Helles, the British had faced...
by Mitch Brunke | Feb 3, 2020
Evacuation: a successful strategy at last – but soaked in blood and wreathed in the ghosts of sacrificed comrades After facing the unpleasant truth about the Gallipoli tragedy, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, visited Anzac for two hours on...
by Mitch Brunke | Feb 3, 2020
With French troops engaged in a diversionary landing on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles, the main British force landed at the foot of the Gallipoli peninsula after dawn. Supported by British Navy guns, the British troops were to advance 10 km along the peninsula...
by Mitch Brunke | Feb 3, 2020
Despite facing only light opposition, the landing at Suvla as part of the August offensive was hopelessly mismanaged by an aged commander with little combat experience in charge of untried troops. It starkly symbolised the British failure to provide effective...
by Mitch Brunke | Feb 3, 2020
July 1, 1916 – The worst day in British military history ‘Somme. The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word.’— German officer Friedrich Steinbrecher. Slaughter in the pretty French valley of the River Somme started on July 1, 1916, when British...
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