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Ataturk's speech at Gallipoli, in my mind, ranks amongst the best speeches in human history: "Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours ... You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."

As an Australian we hold nothing but respect for the bond we and Turkey hold today. 🇦🇺🇳🇿🇹🇷

'Never another Gallipoli' Ataturk is an absolute legend, deserves his epithet entirely.

"Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is a murder." M. Kemal ATATÜRK

Never underestimate soldiers that are defending their homeland.

In Turkey there are some highschools that didn't have any graduations that time, because all of their students volunteered to fight in Gallipoli and never came back. Konya, Izmir and Galatasaray (one of the most prestigious schools in Turkey today) Highschools are some of them. Also, I can't remember the name, but one highschool still has an empty classroom in memory of its students who volunteered and died for their motherland.

My late dad served in the US Army next to a Turkish regiment during the Korean War. He said the Turks were good allies & fierce, dependable soldiers who would fight to the death, rather than risk being taken prisoner, or retreat. They hated the North Koreans because they mutilated the bodies of some dead Turkish soldiers, ambushed on a patrol.. He related how some of the men in his company preferred to eat chow with the Turks, because they loved their exotic food. They were equipped by the US & had some deadly, accurate snipers.

My father was in the 8th Light Horse Brigade at Gallipoli and after a while he became an ambulance soldier and a expert with horses. He married late and had 8 children. He would not talk about Gallipoli. I was 14 yo when I found out he was in the war.. His only comment was about the war was is a great lesson on how stupid men can be. He never went in an ANZAC Day March. I am, 81 y/o. He also served WW2 as a medic and became an Army nurse. His war record in WW1 and WW2 is with full honours. He later received a full War pension. He always hated Churchill.

As an NZer, Gallipoli is still one of the most formative military campaigns in our history, and we remember it every year on ANZAC day. Props to all the Turks who still allow us to hold our memorials at Gallipoli every year, even after we invaded their country.

I was in Gallipoli in 1990, yeah as an Aussie tourist. My great uncle fought on the Western Front though & survived. What I found at Gallipoli was a sombre, tranquil, serene place. Obviously far from what the horrific & harsh battle grounds some 75 years earlier. It is definitely a place worth visiting. The Turkish people I met with there, & throughout their country were decent, helpful, wonderful people.

My grandfather was an Australian junior officer at Gallipoli. He came ashore with others and tried to fight their way up the cliff side through scrub and ravines that in the dark caused the attackers to easily get lost. On top of that they could not see the Turks because of the the dense scrub, but the defenders could sure see them and many Turks turned out to be crack shots. My grandfather was shot in the left leg and went down, but was able to get up and continue, when he was shot in that leg again. This time the sciatic nerve was almost severed so there was no getting up. He was eventually evacuated back to the shore and from there to the hospital ship. He was especially contemptuous of this ship and the depth of the planning that had gone into it. It was flooded with seriously wounded men with neither the medical staff nor pharmaceuticals to take care of the sheer numbers. Men were having limbs amputated without anesthetic because it was ll used up. My grandfather was patched up for a longer hospital stay in England but he was warned on the ship that he was likely to lose the leg. After convalescing there he was shipped back to Australia to recover. He didn't lose his left leg but he generally used a cane for the rest of his life. He would return to fight on the western front and in Persia in a highly secret effort get control of the oil wells at Baku. On returning to Gallipoli in 1965 for the 50th anniversary he met a Turkish gentleman who had also been there that day, shooting at him. My grandfather had wondered how that particular beach beach had been chosen for the Anzacs to come ashore, hugely tilting the advantage to the defending Turks. Apparently it wasn't. The gentleman told him that a day or so before the Allied attack, an alert Turk had noticed a red buoy dropped off a beach a mile or so away, probably by the Royal Navy. They correctly deduced this was to locate the beach for invading forces, so they dragged it a mile down the coast to a beach they could well defend. They certainly did. It became known as Anzac Cove, a British military disaster that contributed to the England taking Australia and New Zealand as serious countries, not just ex-colonies.

I was about 19 when it finally hit me. I was at the dawn parade with my mother on ANZAC Day. She put her arm around me and my brother and said with tears in her eyes: "I'm just glad my young fellows are here, and they never had to be sent off to die."

Notice the British Commentator craftily removed Churchill’s part in this blunder

" The mothers who sent their sons from far away land! Rest your tears. Your children are in our bosom. They are in peace and will sleep comfortably in peace. After they lost their lives in this land,they are now our sons. " Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Had the priviliege to go on a tour at Gallipoli on Anzac Day, 1994. We visited all the cemeteries, a Turkish army officer attended ceremonies at several, with a Turkish bugler playing 'The Last Post'. Our guide was a Turkish historian whose grandfather had defended Gallipoli (maybe killed, don't remember), and who in excellent English described some of the battles that had taken place, mentioning dates and names, etc. Was struck chiefly by the youth of the dead, and came back to my hotel emotionally exhausted as never before or since.

Both of my grandfathers were there ... obviously they survived , but my paternal grandad died early , I have his medals and his paybook . I got to talk with my maternal grandfather who carried a chunk of Turkish shrapnel in his leg until he left the building . He had more respect for ' Johnny Turk ' than he did for the Brit commanders . My uncles that were also there became radicalised about ' king and country ' , came home and were instrumental in the creation of New Zealand's Labour Party ... So some good came out of this disaster .

If Churchill had stuck by the battleship deal with the Turks, instead of ripping them off, the Turks would have been an ally.

My great grandfather was seaman on the SS Clyde on that fateful first day. They watched horrified as the the soldiers were wiped out. Then a call went out for volunteers to man dinghies and rescue the wounded. All the would be rescuers were themselves killed in the attempt. My great grandfather bled out trying to apply a tourniquet to his leg and was thrown into a shallow mass grave with hundreds of others. Nobody in my family blames the Turks, war is war after all. In the seventies my grandmother was invited over to Turkey to visit the grave and was accommodated for free. Its been over a hundred years and this one death still echoes down through the family as he left three young children and a wife behind who never remarried. War is so destructive. It saddens me that the human race has not grown out of it.

People should really see Gallipoli. Turks, Australians, New Zelands are together under ground. One of the the most emotional Journey in my life

My step-father fought with the ANZACs at Gallipoli. He was with the New Zealand army. He lost a leg and never forgave Churchill.

dont underestimate what a people are willing to do to defend their homeland

Exactly what happens when you have mediocre planning, poor implementation, lack of real commitment, inept leadership coupled with total underestimation of the capabilities of the enemy. Along with serious arrogance. No wonder it failed. Very impressive graphics though, very clear and informative.

There is no winner in war. As new generations, we must learn from the past so that history does not repeat itself and our ancestors may rest in peace. Love from Turkey to my New Zealander and Australian brothers and sisters. 🙏🏻❤️

I was at Gallipoli in Oct 2009 and I doubt that even then, under civilian conditions it would have been an easy walk to Lone Pine (about two or three kilometres). How men both fought and survived these 9 months is amazing.

World's best warriors, the bravest men and women with old weapons defeated one of the biggest armies of Europe. Turks didn't have warships, fighter planes, even automatic rifles as many as their enemies had. They didn't have even enough rifles. Many soldiers were using their rifles in turn. Gallipoli is one of the most important wars in history.

Should have mentioned the two (failed) Italian raids into the Dardanelles of 1912, during the Italo-Turkish war. They involuntarily helped the Turks realize the local defences had to be strengthened.

Visited Turkey a month ago. Gallipoli was the first item on our agenda. My partner is from Turkey. Felt nothing other than respect, generosity and a good sense of humour from the tour guide and the people in the region. You can see why they tried to invade the area. In the end the Turks were defending their homeland - it'd be the same if it was the other way around.

My grandfather was at Gallipoli,his younger brother Claude died in France. He used to tell me stories about the withdrawal, and the self firing rifles,setting up decoys etc .He won a Military cross, but lost a brother.

05:02 The Turkish guns fell silent because they had run out of ammunition. The ships guns didn't hit even one of them. Info from a British pilot flying over the forts. 09:00 Let's land our troops right in front of the main Turkish defences ! After all, they'll just run away. 11:16 The Kiwi troops took Chunuk Bair but recieved no re-inforcements. Then they were shelled by British guns and were left with so few men they couldn't hold the ground. From 5WWCT Regimental records. You forgot to mention General Stopford. He was the man in charge of the landings at Suvla Bay but never set foot off his ship as he had a sore knee. All messages from the front line had to taken to him by rowboat and were hours old by the time they reached him. Why did the campaign fail? The Turks knew they were coming for months before and had plenty of time to station troops in the peninsula and site their guns. The British had done ZERO reconaissance, had no maps of the terrain and no actual landing craft. Just rowboats towed by a little steam powered tug. The powerful currents pushed them far from their intended landing sites. As for the ship at Cape Helles... when it grounded right in front of the Turkish fortifications, there was a 150m gap between ship and shore. That had to be plugged with barges. The Turks let the British do that but when the troops flooded down the ramps and into the barges, the Turkish Maxim guns opened up and slaughtered them. The Turks didn't run away....

U. S. Marines carefully studied the Gallipoli Campaign, evaluating what went right and what went wrong, and designed WW2 (and future) USMC amphibious operations off the valuable lessons provided by the Gallipoli Campaign.

I'm only two generations separated from the campaign as my maternal grandfather was among those landed at Suvla Bay. As a child, my grandfather showed me his WWI medals. I misheard what he said and for years thought he'd landed at Silver Bay. He lost an eye, was invalided back via Malta and lived until he was 94. Strange to think in 2022 that my grandfather was born in 1896.

As a former and retired soldier, and a veteran of Desert Storm, and GWOT, the Australian troops are The real badasses, I'm glad we're on the same side, Much respect

The cock-up of the Gallipoli campaign isn't a one way street. To the incompetence of the Allied planners, you have to add the tenacity of the Turkish soldiers.

Everything, everything went wrong and the Turkish forces did everything right and planed and fought smart.

My Grandfather was one of the last men to leave Gallipoli, he was one of those tasked with setting up the self firing rifles. From one hell he was soon to find himself at another...Passchendaele. Originally he was a cavalryman with the Queens Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry before it before their horses wee taken away and they became infantry.

My great-grandfather fought in North Africa in WW2 as part of the 4th Indian Division. To him, the best troops in the fighting were the 2nd Newzealand division. He spoke very highly of them as highly as he spoke about the Indian division itself.

My great-grandfather and great-granduncle were there. great-granduncle is still there, in the Martyr's Cemetery for the 57th Infantry Regiment. We do not know when exactly he fell, just that he did. My great-grandfather? Gallipoli for him was just one more entry in a very long story - he left his home for his military service in 1912 for the Balkan Wars. Came back only in 1922, after the War of Independence. A decade of almost uninterrupted fighting. He was in Iraq, Gallipoli, Galicia, and then the Eastern Front as Gen. Kazım Karabekir's batman.

“HMS Inflexible” well who can claim the Navy doesn’t have a sense of irony, eh?

Many thanks for this insightful résumé.

Recently visited the museum in Wellington where there is an impressive display of the Gallipoli debacle. Really worth seeing if you are in the area.

Short version: The invaders messed with the wrong nation.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's message for Anzak day in 1934, which sent to maders of the soldiers who have been lost life in Galibolli campaign. "Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives ... You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours ... You, the mothers who sent their sons from faraway countries, wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well."

Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!

It wasn't fail. It was glorious and rightful victory for us. It was a great lesson for you.

This whole fiasco is an example of why you should never underestimate your enemy. The Allies considered the Ottoman Empire “The Sick Man of Europe” and considered them completely inferior. So first they tried forcing their navy up through a narrow strait they knew was mined and defended with a mostly obsolete force, which went as well as expected by anyone able to look at a map. So when that didn’t work they tried their amphibious invasion without real planning or intelligence into difficult terrain and without adequate support because somehow they thought the Ottomans would just collapse.

Thanks our ancestors that they protect our country with their lives. Every Turkish family has some martryies at Gallipoli (Canakkale), my uncles name Omer is also given from his grandfathers brother who died at gallipoli. At the end we lost the war and allied navy passed the gallipoli few years later but this campaign was like the beginning of Turkish independence war and Ataturk becames hero at Gallipoli. More than 500 years Turks ruled middle east withouth any violance and full of peace but after the war the situation is very bad still at the palestine, iraq, syria, libya etc. I m sure many of them are regretfull for coorperating with imperialist countries.

Thanks for the video

I was in Gallipoli exactly when the bread riots started in Homs Syria in 2009. The thing that struck me most about the battlefield was how incredibly small it was. There is this coastline that literally goes for tens or hundreds of miles and all the fighting is concentrated on this tiny slice of around a 1/2 mile. I know strategic place etc, but it was hard to realise that say 5 miles away people could be going to the beach for a swim and a picnic.

"Easteners believed that Germany was being propped up by its allies Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire". Strategic thinkers really ? There's your problem with your whole plan, the baseline assumptions are totally wrong. It was Germany that was carrying the Central Powers side the whole war lol

Another comprehensive yet easy-to-follow video from IWM. Many thanks🙏

Excellent documentary, it is a concise explanation of the whole operation & why it failed.

Perfectly explained video and a great history lesson big thanks for sharing

After the fierce battles of the Gallipoli Campaign, Mustafa Kemal was appointed as headquarter officer in Istanbul. From there he predicted possible British evacuation and urged the high command and command of the 5th army to launch surprise counter attack. Fortunately for Britain, his words fell on deaf ears.

Don't forget that if Churchill had given the Ottomans the 2 battleships they had purchased, the Ottomans would've been part of the Entente, the Russians would've been resupplied and there would've hence been no Bolshevik revolution, and hence no Nazi party.

Like Arnhem, Gallipoli was a great idea, but it could only work if the enemy did not put up strong resistance. My grandfather fought at Gallipoli and as a small boy I was enthralled by his retelling of how they escaped; no respite for him though, he was taken straight to France for the battle of the Somme.

This is a very good documentary. Thank you for preparing this. Here couple of comments from me: You mentioned the mistakes from Allied side but similar detrimental mistakes was also done by Turkish side too. Yes, we got great help from German artillary, technology and commanders. But they did make a mistake in day 1. General Liman tought that main embarkment point would be the Saros bay. Ataturk send couple of warnings to main headquarters saying that there are at least 20 potential embarkment point around the peninsula and saying that this is a mistake. At day one 25 april, Ataurk had the reserve army and he had direct orders to stand down till he hear from the main headquarters. But the issue is that he couldn't reach them on that day. He took his own initiative and move the army to south. I am sure you know the meaning of disobeying a direct order in military. With his decision he bought the time to reposition the army according to the embarkment points. After this move General Liman kept Ataturk by his side till the end of ww1. There was no problem that you mentioned which is not shared by Turkish army as well. Hunger and starvation was a problem in throughout the Anatolia for both civillians and military. Because allied power had a blockade on Turkey in mediterranean and Turkey had 3 open fronts which makes the food transportation harder in anatolian peninsula. This blockade cause starvations in Anatolia and Syria & Lebanon. In the fronts hunger was a huge problem. You can check the menus. It is almost nothing but bread and boiled grapes . I read a memoir of a Turkish soldier who encounter a dining table pictures of anzac soldiers. He was shocked that they didn't even refrain from dining attire with cups and plates forks...etc and very confused about this. During the gallipoli campaign many highschools did not have a single graduates because of students went to Gallipoli and died there. So yes, they died defending their homeland but still they were children who were also inexperienced in war skills. This cause many problems after 1923, because Turkey lost %70 of young educated intellectuals in this war. And yes, Turkish commanders and generals were skilled; because they saw nothing but war since last 100 years. This was also a drawback because soldiers were tired of unending wars and Turkish army was quite notorious for deserters. You presented as if Gallipoli campaign was doomed from the beginning, but I don't agree in that. The allied powers had quite good reasons to come. What make the difference was Ataturk's initiative and Turkish soldier who defended their home. I can tell you this, if Ataturk was not there in Gallipoli, history would be so different for Europe, for Russia and for Turkey.

Both mine and my wife's kin were there. My great grandfather made it home. Her's no such luck. My great grandfather wasn't the same. A broken man and a broken marriage followed by my broken father. I've felt this campaign with my skin. Lest we forget. The scars carry from those brave men.

Gotta love how the Brits celebrate their retreats like they are actually victories. Dunkirk, Singapore, this.

I had no previous knowledge of Gallipoli before this video. When I saw the pictures of those big noisy ships followed by a picture of that long, narrow winding passage between mountain passes I knew that wouldn't work. Exactly how anybody thought it would is completely beyond me.

Excellent presentation!

04:00 '...a ship called Nusret...' The saltmaster was effective since ww1...

If westerners win : good strategy If westerners lose: good retreat Same story of Gallipoli and Vietnam. Have some decency

Thanks for the fluent and clear explanation. Impressive!

Very interesting and informative. Thank you. 👍

In the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, lays a special section that commemorates the sad events of Gallipoli. Included in the memorial is the following quote attributed to Attaturk: 'Those heroes that shed their blood and lost their lives... you are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore, rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and the Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours... You the mothers who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears. Your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.'

An excellent book that covers the wider Ottoman picture as well as Gallipoli is Ottoman Endgame by Sean McMeekin. One of the key things is that the initial Gallipoli plan was to help relieve the Russians in Eastern Anatolia. Ironically the Russians had completely recovered and were on the offensive by the time the Anglo-French operation actually began.

If I'm not mistaken, Churchill was the man who ordered the attack at Gallipoli. When things started to go wrong, military commanders there advised to put a stop to the ill-planned campaign. But Churchill still insisted. He's responsible for the death of tens of thousands of his fellow countrymen and allies. But he's not mentioned at the beginning. Only at the end. This drund and inept politician is also responsible for the II world war. Years before the war started he had been pushing for war against Germany. And after the disaster at Dunkirk, Hitler made several proposal for peace, which Churchill and his henchmen arrogantly rejected. So, in this case Churchill has then became responsible for the death of millions of soldiers, civilians alike, for the purpose of defending Poland. But at the end of the war, nobody cared about Poland. In fact it was given to Stalin months before the war ended. Maa Zedong is reportedly responsible for the murder of 40 million Chinese. But the war Churchill wanted and pushed caused more than 50 million dead, plus wounded, maimed, and property damage. And this real war criminal, nexto to Roosevelt, is heralded as a hero in England.

pretty flexible tactics for the HMS Inflexible :-D thanks for the well produced video, i love learning about this stuff. Dankeschön from germany!

"If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk, I would conquer all of the East. Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.If you give me an army of Turks, I can take the whole world hostage." (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Rule 101 in the military. Never underestimate your enemy

I went to Gallipoli and was struck by the no. Of graves, and the haunted atmosphere was felt once I grasped how scary those days were in such tiny island

My great grandfather was a sergeant in the 8th Light Horse Regiment at Gallipoli. He survived the whole war, but for a dose of gastro he missed the Nek, so its just luck I'm here today.

As a Frenchman I like how the Aussies and Kiwis celebrate this event when in my country, France, we tend to forget our heroes who were sacrified because of somebody else's cock-ups. A French soldier losing his war but fighting feriously during the siege of Paris by the Prussians in 1870, or against the Turks at Galipoli in 1915, or defending the Dunkirk perimeter in 1940, or being besieged at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 is not less courageous and has not less merit that a victorious French soldier routing the Russians out of Sebastopol in 1855, repelling the Germans at the Marne river in 1914 or in Verdun in 1916, or at Bir Hakeim in 1942 etc... you get my point. Really, lot to learn from these Anzac nations.

My great uncle Major Samuel Grant was an ANZAC at Anzac cove. When lt-col Malone refuse to lead the attack on Chunuk Bair (due to the lack of artillery support which was late arriving) Sam lead the charge for the hill. He was shot in the legs and laid in the sun for 3 days. Then evacuated to the hospital ship SS Dongola. They needed to amputate his leg. He refused anaesthetic saying give it to the boys. He was buried at sea soon after. When I had trouble during lockdown I thought how nice it would be for those soldiers to be locked down at home compared to what they endured.

The biggest lesson is the strength of fixed fortifications, not learned a hundred years on as 500,000 lives were lost on the Surovikin Line. 😢

In 1915 Gallipoli was not the only battle front for the Ottomans: Ottomans were fighting the Russian Empire on the Eastern Front and again the British on the Philistine and Baghdad fronts. Greek forces invaded Izmir in the same year (King of Greece was the father-in-law of the current British Queen at that time.) Ottomans relocated the Armenian civilians from the war areas in the Eastern Front to Syria which is recognized as the Armenian Genocide by number of countries today. "War propaganda" was invented during these years: the British Wellington House produced harrowing stories about the war to entice the US to join the WWI and it worked.

Amphibious operations are extremely difficult and complex operations that require specialized ships, equipment and training. It took the Allies three years in WW2 to get it right.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ❤❤“I am not ordering you to attack, I am ordering you to die. In the time that will pass until we die, other forces and commanders may come to our place.”Atatürk's order to the 57th Regiment.❤❤ But the most beautiful legacy of Atatürk is "Peace at home, peace in the world".❤❤Rest ın peace my pasha...

Gonna watch later!

Wonderful stuff. Not the casualties everyone took. But the wonderful approach to military history!

Anyone who’s played battlefield 1 knows the cape helles and archi baba offensive are the hardest operations in the game. Absolute hell trying to get from the beach past layers of defensive trenches and a fortress on the hill over looking the beach

My maternal grandfather and his half-brother served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers and were part of the force which landed at Suvla Bay. Both survived and were shipped to Egypt, my half-uncle having been wounded. He was back home in Anglesey by Christmas. My grandfather went on with the Fusiliers to fight in Palestine. My mother told me he never spoke of his time abroad.

as a turkish i believed this campaign is the only choice for allied powers.. allied powers must have put out of war ottoman empire as soon as possible.. because after serbian conquistion, convincing bulgaria would not be hard.. bulgaria wanted lands from serbia and romania losed at second balkan war. ottoman empire gave dimetoka city back to bulgaria for this alliedship.. already at 1914 ottoman army attacked britain at suez canal and attacked russian empire at caucasia front.. if the berlin-istabul raiload would open, this time ottoman army would be serious problem.. already ottoman empire closed straits and german navy closed baltic sea and blocked terrestrial trade road to atlantic ocean with austrai-hungary empire for russian empire.. the straits should have opened as soon as possible.. but they waited until 1915 winter has passed away..why? because of russian empire.. when winter passed away, russian empire would start a massive attack at caucasian front against ottoman empire.. and it did.. at march of 1915 russian empire attacked ottoman empire and conquered all eastern cities: sivas, erzurum, erzincan, bitlis, muş,trabzon, rize, samsun, hakkari vs.. almost they reached mediterranien sea.. so allied forces did not give up with unseccesfull strait passing attempt. they transferd this to a landing campaign beacuse ottoman army confronted a two sized battle and armenians started a big revolt.. allied forces should have kept bussy ottoman army at western front.. this was the main goal from now on.. so an insider, two outsider fronts opened against ottoman empire.. gallipoli campaign was one of the third legs.. so i find gallipoli campaign is a strategic necessitty.. and ottoamn empire fought at three fronts at the same time.. russian army stayed at eastern cities two year more until 1917 red october .. western people may think gallipoli campaign is ridiculous but i find it is a mastermind manouvre.. go for the head..if it did not happen, hold your opponent arms for your friends..

I was on a cruise ship that sailed through the strait also sailing parallel to us was a huge Soviet Submarine on the surface , on both side of the straight could be seen large monuments, to the fallen.It was a very Somber moment.

The best youth of Australia sent to the slaugther house, Gallipoli with Gibson was a fine film. I still stand in respectful silence when I pass by the memorial in Brisbane.

The failure of the landings led Churchill to realize any similar landing required the rapid landing of tanks and guns to allow a breakout from the shore. So during WW2 Churchill sketched out a vessel which could carry maybe 30 tanks and could unload them directly onto a suitable beach. Despite some US opposition (they could not see the point) this became the 'Landing Ship Tank' or LST. It became one of the key components of landings including Normandy. Due to the size of the ship it could not take part in the initial landings, smaller craft such as 'Landing Craft Tank', LCT's would land typically three tanks or similar onto the beach. LST's could transport loads including railway engines and rolling stock. Basically a roll-on-roll-off ferry, and many were used in that role after the war.

My step-mothers father landed with the Manchesters the only time he talked about the war was when a Turkish shell spooked the mule with his kit on it, he was on a charge for losing his kit.

Had never realized just how long this battle had gone on, It's mention is usually so brief I probably assumed it was a few weeks or so.

I have a box brownie photograph, taken by my grandfather, of a ship convoy with the legend on the back: going to pound the Dardanelles. He served on HMS ACORN in this time, until it was decommissioned at Malta in 1922. We also have a lovely panoramic (60inches by 10inches) photograph, embellished with pencil drawing, of the Golden Horn, from the hillside above Galata Bridge, after the war with the British fleet at anchor. My grandfather told stories about being on standby to get the Imperial Russian Family out of Russia but we never really believed these tall tales. Until the secret decision by George V to deny his cousins sanctuary because it might threaten his own throne came out in the last 20 years; my grandfather was vindicated posthumously.

We have Mustafa Kemal Atatürk thank for saved this country. Peace and respect from Turkey. ❤ Peace at home, peace in the world. - ATATURK

i work as a translator in Gallipoli on Anzac Day and let me tell you, it's truly relieving to see no one kept their grudges. war is (and was) between leaders, not people.

My grandfather survived the hell on Chunak Bair with the Wellington Infantry in the New Zealand Division. I went there in 2019. I couldn't imagine how anyone did. I owe my existence to the fact he managed it.

My uncle was there with the reinforxcements. Within a few weeks he was hospitalised with trench fever. Saved his life but he would not talk about it.

We lost our grandfather at Gallipoli His friends said the last time they saw him, he was clambering his way over the trenches We later found him in the local Pide' bar enjoying a bottle of Efes, just in time to catch the flight home

Winston churchill should of been jailed for this poorly planned campaign,underestimated the turks fighting ability,had the arrogance to think he could have his navy ships sail through the dardenalles passage with no problems and the ignorance to think the turks would be a pushover, winston was to blame for this calamity,him and his outdated generals.

Austria sent heavy Skoda howitzers. The transport was a special operation, with new streets and bridges necessary for the heavy weight. These howitzers were devastating for the Australian navy.

Everyone who died on two fronts had a father, mother, brother, child, loved one. War is humanity's worst disease. Wars must end.

This is a very informative video and thanks for posting. I've recent read the book 36 days written by Hugh Dolan who puts a great perspective on the lead up to the campaign. His documentary called Gallipolli from above is another great watch. According to this the Aust forces dint land on the wrong beach. They had planned their own landings and had used aerial reconnaissance to math Turkish positions. According to Dolan the first Aust wasn't killed until about 0800 in the morning, at least 3 hours after the landing at ANZAC Cove.

Ottomans: It's over, Allies. I have the high ground. Allies: You underestimate my power!