Dominic Sandbrook

But that is precisely what they are doing by mid-afternoon.

Far from going forwards and pushing inland, they're being driven back towards the sea.

Their officers are being scythed down by Turkish machine guns, and they're absolutely shattered.

Of course, I mean, imagine how exhausted they must be after making this landing.

So this is Private Herbert Filders of the 12th Battalion.

Four of us lay under shrapnel, machine gun and rifle fire, not daring to lift our heads the whole while.

If we'd budged, we'd have been killed dozens of times over.

The bullets were streaming so thick over our heads.

Our officer said he'd never seen anything like it and he's an old soldier.

I was jolly tired too.

As a matter of fact, I went to sleep twice.

That's impressive.

Yeah, it's really hard.

So we'll see, particularly in our next episode, in Thursday's episode.

I think the conditions at Gallipoli are just unbelievably hellish.

And they're definitely worse than the Western Front.

And a lot of people who served on both said, you know, the Western Front wasn't brilliant, but the one thing it had in its favour was it wasn't Gallipoli, which was so much worse.

Yeah, it sounds awful.

So anyway, this bloke who fell asleep, he was hit three times in the legs, but he still managed to get out to the beach, which is very impressive.

Have a barbie.