To the Dardanelles! The Entente Allies successfully capture their objective and plant their flags in this boy's 1915 war game, as they did not in life, neither in the naval campaign, nor in the invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula.
Aux Dardanelles; Victoire; Vive les AlliésLogo and number: ACA 2131Reverse:Artige - Fabricant 16, Faub. St. Denis Paris Visé Paris N. au verso. Fabrication Française - Marque A.C.A
"On the 4th of June [1915] a second great attack was made by the Allied troops near Cape Helles. Like the attack of the 6th-8th May, it was an advance on the whole line, from the Straits to the sea, against the enemy's front-line trenches. As before, the French were on the right and the 29th Division on the left, but between them, in this advance, were the R.N. Division and the newly arrived 42nd Division. Our men advanced after a prolonged and terrible bombardment, which so broke the Turk defence that the works were carried all along the line, except in one place, on the left of the French sector, and in one other place, on our own left, near the sea."
In June 1915, the Entente Allies held two positions on the Gallipoli Peninsula: the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzacs) at Ari Burnu (Anzac Cove), and the British and French (including Indians and Senagalese) at the end of the peninsula at Cape Helles. Masefield, author of the above, reports that the Allied advance 'varied in depth from a quarter of a mile to six hundred yards', and extended from the Dardanelles strait to the Aegean Sea. Despite the Allied advance, the Turks still contained the invaders at the end of the peninsula and held the high ground above them.
Gallipoli by John Masefield by John Masefield, page 88, publisher: William Heinemann, publication date: 1916
1915-06-04, 1915, June, Gallipoli, Gallipoli Campaign, The Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey
