Dominic Sandbrook

You know, my men have performed heroically, but they are thoroughly demoralized by snipers, shrapnel and shellfire.

If we have to resume fighting tomorrow, he says, there is likely to be a fiasco.

You need to get us out of here right away.

And Hamilton actually talks to the naval officers.

Can this be done?

And the naval guys say to him, it's actually not possible.

We cannot.

There are no plans.

You know, we don't have the, we haven't prepared.

We literally cannot physically get them out at such short notice.

And so Hamilton sends a signal back to the Anzacs, dig yourselves right in and stick it out.

Dig, dig, dig until you are safe.

And so this is what they're doing.

And is this where the word diggers for Anzac troops comes from?

I think it is, actually.

Yeah, this is my assumption, I guess, although I'm not certain.

So both at Anzac Cove and at Cape Helles further south, the men are now digging trenches.

And this, of course, is the grim irony of all this, that this whole operation...

was meant to avoid the horrors of the Western Front.

It was a diversion from the Western Front.