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
"All through the day the wind gathered, till it was blowing a full gale, vicious and bitter cold; and on the 28th it reached its worst. The 28th was spoken of afterwards as 'Frozen Foot Day'; it was a day more terrible than any battle. . . . On the 29th, the limits of human strength were reached. Some of those frozen three days before were able to return to duty, but 'a great number of officers and men who had done their best to stick it out were forced to go to hospital.' The water fell during the day, but it left on average two and a half feet of thick, slushy mud, into which many trenches collapsed."
The storm that struck the Dardanelles and the Gallipoli Peninsula at the end of November, 1915, began with torrential rain on the 26th, turning into a blizzard that lasted through the 28th. The temperature dropped again on November 29.
Gallipoli by John Masefield by John Masefield, pp. 171, 172, publisher: William Heinemann, publication date: 1916
1915-11-29, November, 1915, Gallipoli, gale, freezing
