the first "hotel de charme" on the Gallipoli peninsula
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From Ariburnu the coast bends north for six miles in an unbroken line to the spit of Nibrunesi. Two miles north of Nibrunesi is the spit of Suvla, which gives its name to the intervening bay. On the shores of this bay on the morning
of the seventh of August, 1915, twenty-two British battalions, consisting of over twenty thousand men, faced with the task of occupying an empty ridge that
of their stay
on the neighbouring islands, already afflicted with the diseases prevalent on
the Peninsula itself.
"The Fading Vision", (London 1936),
John North, p.145
commanded the bay a little more than four miles inland, failed to overcome the opposition of a detachment of fifteen hundred Turks. It is therefore important to remember that the New Army battalions at this new landing were a young citizen army, untrained for the guerrilla type of warfare they were to encounter, unhardened to the conditions of life on the Peninsula, and many of them, as a result
One of the Generals that fell in
Gallipoli lies here. A personal friend of Churchill, who mentions him
among others in his "The World Crisis" - Volume II (p. 451) :
On this dark battlefield of fog and flame Brigadier-General Lord Longford, Brigadier-General Kenna, V.C., Colonel Sir John Milbanke,
V.C. and other paladins fell.