The Dardanelles and the Gallipoli Peninsula, an inset from Collier's War Maps of the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora, and the Bosphorus.
The Dardanelles, Scale of Miles, Main Roads, Railroads, Prop[osed] Railroads, FortsAegean Sea, Dardanelles, Gallipoli Peninsula, Gallipoli, Asia Minor, Cape Helles, Suvla Bay, shore batteries, and other place names.
"Scared? Sometimes you were too scared to be scared. I would laugh at any individual who says he wasn't afraid. Those who say they were devoid of fear talk absolute phooey. I was paralysed with fear. I was so paralysed with fear on Chunuk Bair and in other placed on Gallipoli that I was sometimes incapable of action, but lucky enough to get away. Strange to say, though, at no point did I ever think that I wouldn't get home. I was wounded but I did get home. I was torpedoed in the Triumph but I still got home. That fortune-teller in Cairo had it right."
From the recollections of veteran Vic Nicholson of the New Zealand Wellington Infantry Battalion of his service in the Gallipoli campaign. The British battleship Triumph was sunk on May 25, 1915 by German submarine U-21 newly arrived at the Dardanelles with the loss of 78 men. Nicholson and two of his mates had their fortunes accurately foretold on the street in Cairo before they went to Gallipoli, Nicholson would be wounded but go home, the second would be badly injured but go home. The third would 'be in a fight,' but the fortune teller knew nothing further. This man died in the August 8 Battle of Chunuk Bair.
Voices of Gallipoli by Maurice Shadbolt, page 95, copyright © 1988 Maurice Shadbolt, publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, publication date: 1988
1915-05-25, 1915, Gallipoli, Gallipoli Campaign, The Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey
