MONASH GULLY 244 MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ALEXANDER GODLEY 256 BIG TABLE TOP 260 OCEAN BEACH 284 ANZAC IN SNOW 384 SCENE ON SUVLA POINT 394 MAPS FACING PAGE HELLES AND THE STRAITS 78 POSITIONS AT ANZAC 112 SUVLA LANDING 286 32ND BRIGADE, AUGUST 8 316 11TH DIVISION, AUGUST 21 341 _At End of Book_ 1. THE PENINSULA, THE STRAITS, AND CONSTANTINOPLE. 2. BRITISH AND FRENCH TRENCHES AT HELLES. 3. POSITIONS AT ANZAC (END OF AUGUST). 4. POSITIONS AT SUVLA (END OF AUGUST). THE DARDANELLES CAMPAIGN CHAPTER I THE ORIGIN On November 3, 1914, the silence of the Dardanelles was suddenly broken by an Anglo-French naval squadron, which opened fire upon the forts at the entrance of that historic strait. The bombardment lasted only ten minutes, its object being merely to test the range of the Turkish guns, and no damage seems to have been inflicted on either side. The ships belonged to the Eastern Mediterranean Allied Squadrons, commanded by Vice-Admiral Sackville Carden, and the order to bombard was given by the Admiralty, Mr. Winston Churchill being First Lord. The War Council was not consulted, and Admiral Sir Henry Jackson, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, in his evidence before the Dardanelles Commission described the bombardment as a mistake, because it was likely to put the Turks on the alert. Commodore de Bartolomé, Naval Secretary to the First Lord, also said he considered it unfortunate, presumably for the same reason.[1] Even Turks, unaided by Germans, might have foreseen the ultimate necessity of strengthening the fortification of the Straits, but at the beginning they would naturally trust to the long-recognised difficulty of forcing a passage up the swift and devious channel which protects the entrance to the Imperial City more securely than a mountain pass.