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The Ottomans entered the war after their fleet had bombarded Russian ports on orders from Enver Pasha -
Lone Pine was planned as a diversion to keep Turkish reserves from the main Allied attack, an attempt to break out of the Anzac perimeter and capture the heights of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971. -
The Gallipoli campaign was a military campaign in the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula -
More than 200 ships were assembled in the harbour at Mudros, Lemnos, in preparation for the invasion of Turkey. The Gallipoli campaign was intended to force Germany's ally, Turkey, out of the war. -
While they had received some fresh reinforcements from Egypt, every unit was below strength and the men's health remained poor. The onset of winter did not help their frail bodies. -
This would involve taking off more than 93,000 troops, 200 guns and more than 5,000 animals as well as vast quantities of stores and ammunition. -
36,000 troops were shipped out over four nights. Support troops and reserves went first, then the fighting units were thinned out until only 10,000 remained on 19 December. -
The deception worked so well that all troops in Suvla, Anzac and Helles were evacuated over two months with minimal casualties, bringing an end to the Anzac's long campaign in Gallipoli. -
Anzac and Suvla Bay had been evacuated successfully. The removal of troops from Cape Helles followed in early January. The evacuation was completed with minimal casualties -
Winston Churchill's Conservative Party lost the July 1945 general election, forcing him to step down as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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