The Battle of the Nek

The reason that the English and the Australians attacked Turkey was quiet simple, Russia was being attacked by Germany and was struggling to maintain defences, at this same time Turkey was also supporting Germany and invading Russia. As a result Russia requested assistance from its British alliances. The British also felt that Turkey would be a great trading port, as it allows great access to the Black Sea. So as a result the British bombarded the Turkish shore batteries to test their range of weaponry and defences, this only eliminating the power of a surprise attack. Three months later a British and French fleet of eighteen battleships attempted to force its way into Constantinople the capital of Turkey via the Dardanelles straits, three capital ships were lost and three badly damaged. This large scale attack had drained all of the Turkish weaponry and at the time the alliance (France and Britain) could have continued to advance down the straits and invaded Constantinople, but as they did not know this, the British and French decided to set up a post at Gallipoli.

Thousands of Australians ventured to Gallipoli to fight alongside the British in World War I, these groups of soldiers were classified as light horse brigades, the 8th light horse brigade predominantly being from Victoria and the 10th light horse brigade predominantly from the Northern Territory. These soldiers had come along on the war to hang out with mates and to see the world at no cost, but by the time they arrived on Turkish ground they had greatly woken up to the reality of the dangers and high possibility of them dying to the Turkish threat.
The fact that the Australian and British soldiers stationed at Anzac Cove were experiencing a long stale mate with the Turkish enemy, meant that many of the men had had to long to think about the dangers of war and had grown quiet anxious and as months past several soldiers were being killed by stray mortars fired by the Turkish infidel, none of which