. British campaigns in the nearer East, 1914-1918. the north of it, were heavily places lay on the eastern slopes of Helles objective was to capture the remainder of thatheight. With that in view the small force of British infantry—500 out of the original 2,000 had been killed or woundedon the previous day chiefly in the attempts to land fromRiver Clyde—were led to the assault by and Captain Walford, , Brigade-Major. They had now the support of the naval guns,and though that support alone made such an attemptpracticable, were subjected
. British campaigns in the nearer East, 1914-1918. the north of it, were heavily places lay on the eastern slopes of Helles objective was to capture the remainder of thatheight. With that in view the small force of British infantry—500 out of the original 2,000 had been killed or woundedon the previous day chiefly in the attempts to land fromRiver Clyde—were led to the assault by and Captain Walford, , Brigade-Major. They had now the support of the naval guns,and though that support alone made such an attemptpracticable, were subjected on the way from the beachto the village to a galling fire. Captain Walford wasamong the first of those who fell. Yet despite theirtrying experience during the landing, and the hardlyless trying night they had just passed crouched underthe escarpment along the shore, these brave men didnot waver. Few have been the instances in war of moreunshakable intrepidity. With such troops, skilfullyhandled, it seemed possible to accomplish anything. 90. [^To face piiffc 90. BRITISH CAMPAIGNS IN THE NEARER EAST And this valour was unquestionably not without itsmoral effect on the Turks, for though they offered adetermined opposition, backed by machine-guns inevery lurking place, they showed here little relish forfighting at close quarters. By 10 in the forenoon(April 26) the ruins of the village had been after the briefest pause the troops started to scalethe open slope above and by 2 in the afternoon hadreached and taken the old castle on the apex ofthe hill. Both heights, Helles Burnu as well as TekkeBurnu, being now in British hands, it becamefeasible to use V Beach for the landing of the FrenchCorps. On April 27 a general move forward was intention was to reach a line extending across thetoe of the peninsula from a point two miles to the northof Tekke Burnu to Eski Hissarlik Point, where all thiswhile Casson had been maintaining himself. Theproposed line wa
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