Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. August 1915. In the area shown here the New Zealand infantry had ...

Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. August 1915. In the area shown here the New Zealand infantry had some hard fighting on 7/8 August 1915. In the early morning of the 7 August 1915 they advanced under very heavy fire. On the following morning the Wellington Battalion, with the 7th Gloucesters, marched almost unopposed into the Turkish trenches on the summit of a ridge. The Turks attacked so fiercely that the Wellington Battalion, which went in 762 strong, came out when relieved next day, 53 strong. The summit of the ridge was held until the morning of the 10th, when with two British Battalions, which relieved the Auckland battalion, they were driven out by a tremendous Turkish attack which came over the summit of Chunuk Bair. The Ghurkhas had, in the meantime, been driven off the summit, which they had reached. The summit was never reached again. Little Table Top is shown in the foreground.