HOW DID THE
CAMPAIGN END?
After the failures in August, the allies started to wonder about the future of the Gallipoli campaign. A request for reinforcements made by Lieutenant-General Ian Hamilton was declined and he was replaced as commander.
The Ottomans were gaining in number and strength, meanwhile, because they now had a direct line through Serbia to receive heavy artillery from their allies Germany and Austria.
The Anzacs also were suffering through deteriorating weather - a storm flooded the trenches in November and many men were suffering frostbite and hypothermia.
Evacuation from Anzac Cove started on December 15 and was completed early on December 20.
So all we have suffered and sacrificed here has been in vain, a most glorious chance in the history of this war absolutely foiled and lost by the most absurd and ridiculous manner the scheme was commenced.
New Zealander Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Hart watching the evacuation.
CREDITS
Designer: John Cowie
Project editor: John Hartevelt
Images: NZHistory.net, Australian War Memorial, Fairfax NZ archive