Dominic Sandbrook

This is 21,000 men of the 29th Division.

And they're given a tremendous send-off by their commanding officer, Major General Aylmer Hunter Weston.

Hunter Bunter.

He says to them, the eyes of the world are upon us.

Your deeds will live in history.

To us now is given the opportunity of avenging our friends and relatives who have died in France and Flanders.

I think the moustaches at Gallipoli, by and large, are better across the board than British moustaches on the Western Front.

So Ataturk had an excellent moustache.

Military moustaches.

Right.

Now, things here at Cape Helles do not go according to plan at all.

So I mentioned there were five beaches.

And the main ones, we'll forget three of them.

We'll just talk about two of them, W and V. So the first wave to land at W Beach are the first Lancashire Fusiliers.

And when they get there, they find that the Turks are waiting with all their barbed wire and their machine guns.

I mean, this is Captain Harold Clayton.

There was tremendously strong barbed wire when my boat landed.

Men were being hit on the boats and as they splashed ashore.

I got up to my waist in water.

I tripped over a rock and went under.