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Days to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War by John Buchan - Sir Henry John Newbolt

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Days to Remember: The British Empire in the Great War by John Buchan - Sir Henry John Newbolt

Author:John Buchan - Sir Henry John Newbolt [Newbolt, John Buchan - Sir Henry John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-30T00:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER XVIII.

THE DEPARTURE FROM GALLIPOLI.

By September 1915 it was clear that the Gallipoli expedition could not succeed. All summer the hopeless struggle had continued for the heights of the peninsula. In July reinforcements arrived, and in August these new divisions, together with the Anzacs,[#] made an attack, that of the left wing at Suvla Bay being designed to turn the enemy flank. This supreme effort failed. There was no chance of further reserves, for the entry of Bulgaria into the war meant that the Allies must send troops to Salonika to help Serbia if possible, and in any case to protect the northern frontier of Greece. Only one course was possible—to get off the peninsula as best we could.



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