the first "hotel de charme" on the Gallipoli peninsula
The gunners of a 12 cm siege battery defeated the enemy at this point by a
bayonet charge and so secured the 3rd Victory of Krithia, 7th June 1915
Transcribed and translated from the inscription on the Son ok Memorial
The three
metre high memorial was built in 1948 to commemorate those Turkish soldiers
who died in the Third battle of Krithia, many of whom who lie in unmarked
graves nearby.
The Third battle of Krithia was fought between June 4 and June 6, and the
failure of the Allied offensive to break throgh the Turkish lines all but
spelt an end to hopes of capturing Achibaba. Following French and British
losses of 7000 men in the action, compared to Turkish losses of approximtely
5000, the Allied command abandoned frontal assaults in favour of smaller
strategic and local attacks.
Gallipoli Battlefield Guide, (Istanbul 2006), Gürsel Göncü & Şahin Aldoğan,
p. 205