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Royal Navy squadron, including the battlecruisers HMS Indomitable and HMS Indefatigable, bombard the Turkish forts at the entrance to the Dardanelles.
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Admiral de Robeck led a flotilla of ships into the gap between Cape Heles and Kum Kale. The Turkish artillery set up in the previous century to dominate the narrow (2 kilometres wide) stretch of water was not quite up to the task. The small Turkish minelayer Nusrat, however, was.
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Australian submarine HMAS AE2 becomes the first Allied vessel to pass through the Dardanelles into the Sea of Marmara.
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First Battle of Krithia British and French forces suffer 4,000 casualties for little gain.
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The trenches at Gallipolli are built. Trench warfare is a form of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches. Troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. Trench warfare occurred when a revolution in firepower was not matched by similar advances in mobility, resulting in a grueling form of warfare in which the defender held the advantage. The trenches were protected form assualt by barbed wire
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Australian 1st Light Horse Brigade arrives as reinforcements.
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Negotiations commence to arrange an armistice in order to bury the dead in no man's land. No mans land was fully exposed to artillery fire from both sides. Attacks, even if successful, often sustained severe casualties.
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Battle of Lone Pine diversion commences at 6.30 a.m. with the Australian 1st Division capturing Turkish trenches. Fighting continues for six days in which time seven Victoria Crosses are awarded.
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Under cover of darkness, two columns of Anzac, British & Indian troops break out to the north, heading for the heights of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971.
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Battle of Hill 60 begins and ends on 29th of August.
