Dominic Sandbrook

So all the men will be able to jump off the River Clyde onto the steam hopper and then jump off the steam hopper onto the sands and run up the beach.

Brilliant.

And then this big ship that's stuck on the beach, the River Clyde, we can use that as our headquarters, as a little field hospital, as a kind of supply depot, all of this.

I think it's quite a good idea.

Do you?

How does it go?

Well, we'll find out.

So they start bombarding the beach, and then they're gonna send up the Dublin Fusiliers first, and little rowing boats, and then this bloody big ship, the River Clyde.

The Dublin Fusiliers make very slow progress, so unfortunately, they land out of order.

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.