Dominic Sandbrook

The River Clyde lands first or crashes aground, but it hasn't got as close to the beach as they hoped it would.

It's still 80 yards away.

So the men can't jump out and wade.

They will just drown.

So this is where your steam hopper little boat, which would act as a bridge, kind of a gangway, comes in.

Unfortunately, the steam hopper has also run aground, but on the wrong side of the ship and pointing the wrong way.

So they can't use that at all.

So they're all stuck on this boat offshore.

How are we going to get off?

At this point, the Dublin Fusiliers and their rowing boats come into land and they are absolute sitting ducks for the Turkish machine gunners who basically scythe through them.

Some of the Dublin blokes jump out and they try to wade ashore, but their packs are so heavy that they can't really make any progress.

They end up being riddled with Turkish bullets and

It's a terrible, terrible scene.

Private Robert Martin.

So that's...

That's not great.

No.

And then what about this ship, the River Clyde?

Yeah, I'm sure that comes to the rescue.

It's just sitting there.