A Turkish funeral with Turkish and German soldiers and officers attending and praying.
Türk[isches] BegräbnisTurkish funeral
"Thirty-six hours after our June success, at midnight in the night of June 29th-30th [1915], the Turks made a counter-attack, not at Cape Helles, where their men were shaken, but at Anzac, where perhaps they felt our menace most acutely. A large army of Turks, about 30,000 strong, ordered by Enver Pasha 'to drive the foreigners into the sea or never to look upon his face again,' attacked the Anzac position under cover of the fire of a great artillery. They were utterly defeated, with the loss of about a quarter of their strength, some seven to eight thousand killed and wounded."
In the Gallipoli campaign, British, Indian, and French forces faced the Turkish lines on the end of the Gallipoli Peninsula. Further north, the Turks contained the invaders at Anzac Cove, the beachhead held by the ANZACs, the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, where as little as 30 yards separated the lines. The Turkish attack was in reponse to those the Allies mounted on June 28, the primary one by the British at Helles and a diversionary one at Anzac Cove. Enver Pasha was the Turkish War Minister.
Gallipoli by John Masefield by John Masefield, pp. 92, 93, publisher: William Heinemann, publication date: 1916
1915-06-30, 1915, June, Gallipoli, Anzac Cove, ANZAC, Turkish funeral, Turk
