Dominic Sandbrook

I got up and made for the shore and lay down by the barbed wire.

The front of the wire by now is a thick mass of men, the majority of whom never moved again.

The trenches on the right raked us and those above us raked our right, while trenches and machine guns fired straight down the valley.

The noise was ghastly.

The sights horrible.

I mean, just, so they've got in land, they're stuck on the barbed wire and they're just being absolutely raked with machine guns.

So the Lancashire Fusiliers, they went to shore with 27 officers and 1,002 men.

They end the day with 16 officers and just 304 men.

But have they secured a foothold?

They have secured a little foothold.

I mean, they definitely got ashore.

So that's something.

Now, if you think that's bad, V Beach is the real shocker.

So V Beach, the Turks had really put a lot of effort into reinforcing this beach.

They had put two lines of barbed wire and then behind them various lines of trenches.

So one of the British naval commanders, who's called Edward Unwin, comes up with a clever plan that you and indeed Rupert Brooke would admire.

He says, look...

We're just across the straits from Troy.

And, you know, if you've done classics at public school, as I have, then you will know how to cope with Trojans.

We need a Trojan horse.