Dominic Sandbrook

I guess.

His second in command, his major, is right behind him.

A second bullet hits the major.

The major raises himself to one knee.

It's carry on, men.

And then another bullet hits him and that's the end of him as well.

So basically, they're all killed.

By mid-afternoon, there are still only 200 men on the beach and they're huddling for cover, sort of under punishing Turkish fire.

And there's a thousand blokes still on the River Clyde.

And only when darkness falls...

and the Turkish firing dies down, can the rest of them get ashore?

And they get ashore, a lot of them, by basically using the bodies as a bridge.

Well, no, because they do manage to push a little.

At Cape Helles, they do manage to push a little way inland.

So they lost 2,000 men, and they'd lost 2,000 men at Anzac Cove.

But in the south, they do manage to push a little bit further.

So it's a great triumph.

Well, they have not come remotely close to realising their objectives or to getting to where they wanted to.

And it is terrifyingly obvious to them at this point that the Turks are not the sort of pushovers they thought they were, that they are dug in, they are well supplied, they're extremely well motivated, and the last thing the Turks are going to do is to run away.

And that evening, the ANZAC commander, who was called William Birdwood, he sent a signal to Sir Ian Hamilton, and he said...