Dominic Sandbrook

Anyway, night falls, the Anzacs do have a foothold.

They've got this little pocket with a kind of perimeter, which is about two miles long.

But in total, they've basically got only half a mile inland.

They are nowhere near where they were meant to be.

And they've already lost 2,000 men out of their 16,000 killed, wounded, or missing.

So that's the Anzacs.

Now, meanwhile, the British have been landing further south at Cape Helles.

And this is actually the bigger landing.

This is 21,000 men of the 29th Division.

And they're given a tremendous send-off by their commanding officer, Major General Aylmer Hunter Weston.

Hunter Bunter.

He says to them, the eyes of the world are upon us.

Your deeds will live in history.

To us now is given the opportunity of avenging our friends and relatives who have died in France and Flanders.

I think the moustaches at Gallipoli, by and large, are better across the board than British moustaches on the Western Front.

So Ataturk had an excellent moustache.

Military moustaches.

Right.

Now, things here at Cape Helles do not go according to plan at all.

So I mentioned there were five beaches.