FINAL GALLIPOLI ATTACK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16921, 6 August 1918, Page 4

FINAL GALLIPOLI ATTACK.

j THIRD ANNIVERSARY. | ; This week is the third anniversary to the ! final effort of the British forces to carry ;th Turkish defences on Gallipoli and ] take the Narrows. The attack, which ! was commenced on August 6, 1915, by ! the Australians on the right of the ! Anzac position, synchronised with the ! Suvla Bay landing. By nightfall the 1 Australians had carried the strong Lone I I':ne position. The second phase of the ! battle was the attack by the New Zea- ; landers—mounted rifles, infantry, and I Maoris—and some Indian troops, which ! was opened on August 8 against the ; natural fortifications on the left. Fosii ion after position was carried until i finally, although at great cost, the crest j of tlie Cluinuk Bair was won, and the | remnant of the force had a glimpse of the Narrows. After three days and nights of the sternest fighting, the colonials were relieved by a part of the Suvla Bay force, but soon after the Turks launched a counter-attack by overwhelming numbers, and regained the erect, which was never again recovered. When withdrawn soon afterwards, the New Zealand Mounted Brigade could muster little more than 200 men.