Impact/Conditions at the Battle Of Gallipoli
Impact and conditions at the battle of Gallipoli were very harsh and dangerous. When a soldier was wounded they had to wait to be treated and would have to wait long. The longer they had to wait the more painful it got and also sometimes when medics got to some soldiers it was too late. Their were a lot of wounded soldiers seeking help but it was too much for doctors and nurses to care for which overwhelmed them. Their were not enough resources meaning they were unprepared for the scenario. Soldiers died but the stench from the corpses made the conditions harder at Gallipoli because the horrible smell didn't leave. The weather impacted the soldiers deeply because when it was summertime the flies came out and buzzed around everywhere caused diseases, a website which supports my information on this http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/the-gallipoli-campaign/conditions. The flies would fly from dead corpses to all over the remaining food spreading diseases. The conditions at Gallipoli were disgusting because dead bodies lied everywhere and diseases were being spread.A main disease which caused many to get sick or die was the fever. At one point the stench from bodies were too much they had to stop fighting to burn the soldiers. When the weather changed conditions got harder cause when it got to the winter time it was too cold for the soldiers and also because when the storms came it created floods and swept all the dead bodies and food, evidence of this http://www.1914-1918.net/Gallipoli.htm. Diseases spread from the corpses and flies which caused many soldiers to get really sick and die. Many soldiers gained trench foot causing them to cut of their foots, showing in this website of the consequences soldiers gained while in the trenches, they gained trench foot. http://www.rmwebed.com.au/web_resources/y9history/gallipoli/trenches.html. The soldiers had only a few things to eat such as tinned beef, jam , fresh fruit and biscuits. Many soldiers had lost there teeth at Gallipoli making it much difficult to eat because in some soldiers words they explained eating biscuits like eating rocks. The living conditions were also very dangerous as the soldiers had limited space and they had no shelter at all from the rain. If soldiers put their head up to high they would get their heads shot off from the Turkish in an instant. New Zealand soldiers had to walk up and run through steep valleys with a heavy load of equipment and clothing making it even harder to get up the valleys. Gallipoli was very tough and most soldiers had to live their for about 8 months. Gaining water was difficult due to soldiers drank all their water because of the heat so soldiers had to take them off dead corpses. When the storm arrived it flooded and washed away everything and caused a lot of men to drown because they were too weak from all the sicknesses and diseases. Soldiers had a very difficult and painful time at Gallipoli due to all the deaths, short supplies and shooting everywhere. The soldiers had to be careful everywhere because the Turkish would be endlessly shoot guns from all directions at the Anzacs and they had to also be careful from bombs too. A place where the New Zealand soldiers had to be careful from was No Mans Land, No Mans Land was in the center of the battle field. No one could get survive in No Mans Land alive because you would be shot. In the soldiers perspective no place was safe.
This source shows many journals from soldiers at gallipoli who state all the conditions and stuff they had to go through against the turkish.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/gallipoli-feature-school-journal
This source shows many journals from soldiers at gallipoli who state all the conditions and stuff they had to go through against the turkish.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/gallipoli-feature-school-journal
http://www.anzac.com/battle_of_gallipoli.html An image showing New Zealand soldiers walking up the trenches, showing how difficult it was and also showing the conditions they had to live through. They had no shelter at all just only dirt and how they also had to walk up with heavy equipment as well. This backs up my information because it shows the New Zealand soldiers climbing up and running up the trenches with all their heavy equipment.
This is a map where the Anzac soldiers landed during the battle of Gallipoli. It shows the landings and dates of where the soldiers were meant to land. The Anzac soldiers arrived at Gallipoli Peninsula and stayed there for around 8-9 months. This was a nw adventure for the new Zealand soldiers because it was the first time travelling so far and also gaining new friendships on the way. Many Anzacs lost their lives at the battle of Gallipoli.
http://www.historyclicking.com/content/19-military-history/ww1/ww1-gallipoli-campaign-overview/ww1-gallipoli-campaign-amphibious-landings-in-the-gallipoli-campaign/
An image showing New Zealand soldiers training in Egypt. Mostly all the Anzac soldiers were impacted deeply due to they had to leave to Egypt for training so they were prepared for the war. As you can see in the image it was very hot in Egypt but the Anzacs still had to wear their full uniform and also obey all orders given.
...There were no beds. Some were still on stretchers on which they had been carried down from the hills, some on the paillasses thrown down on the hard decks. The few Red Cross orderlies were terribly overworked. For twelve hours on end an orderly would be alone with sixty desperately wounded men in a hold dimly lit by one arc lamp. None of them had been washed and many were still in their torn and blood-stained uniforms. There were bandages that had not been touched for two or three days – and men who lay in an indescribable mess of blood and filth … Most of them were in great pain, many could get no ease or rest, and all were patched with thirst. Those who slept dreamed troubled dreams and those waked were in torment:
‘Orderly! Orderly! Water! Water!
‘Orderly, for Christ’s sake, ease me up a little.’
‘Orderly! I can’t sleep.’
‘Water! Fetch me a drink.’
‘Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!’
‘I can’t sleep. I haven’t slept for three nights – give me morphia.’
‘Oh God! You don’t know how this hurts.’
‘Oh thank you orderly, but can’t you give me a whole cupful.’
‘Orderly! Orderly! Fetch men a drink.’
‘Look out there! They are coming! Take that you bastard!’
‘Oh God! Oh God! – the pain!’
Ormond Burton, New Zealand Medical Corps, quoted in Gavin McLean, Ian McGibbon & Kynan Gentry, The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War, 2009
Day by day the sun grew hotter and hotter until it burned down scorchingly hot. There was scarcely any shade. The bivvies themselves were swelteringly hot. The ground was almost red hot. There was little stirring of air beneath the great cliffs. Men soon commenced to shed their clothing. Slacks were ripped off at the knees and the vogue of shorts commenced. Coats were flung off and then shirts. The ‘Tommy hats’ in which the New Zealanders had landed were soon thrown away and replaced by Australian felts, pith helmets or the New Zealand issue of unfortunate members of the reinforcement drafts … Within six weeks of landing the fashionable costume had become boots, shorts, identity disk, hat and when circumstances permitted a cheerful smile. The whole was topped off by a most glorious coat of sunburn.
Ormond Burton, The Silent Division, 1935http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/the-gallipoli-campaign/conditions
This piece of information from diary entries are from New Zealand soldiers explaining their situation. It tells us the impacts and conditions the New Zealand soldiers went through. Tells us about the sight the soldiers saw like all the wounded who were full of blood and bandages. Mostly all the soldiers were in pain and hadn't sleep due to the endless fighting. The weather was burning hot which didn't go down but got even hotter. Most soldiers got sun burnt due to their being no shade at all. This information backs up my information because it states the weather getting endlessly getting hotter and hotter also that soldiers where dying of thirst. Alot of soldiers seeked water due to the hot weather.
‘Orderly! Orderly! Water! Water!
‘Orderly, for Christ’s sake, ease me up a little.’
‘Orderly! I can’t sleep.’
‘Water! Fetch me a drink.’
‘Oh God! Oh God! Oh God!’
‘I can’t sleep. I haven’t slept for three nights – give me morphia.’
‘Oh God! You don’t know how this hurts.’
‘Oh thank you orderly, but can’t you give me a whole cupful.’
‘Orderly! Orderly! Fetch men a drink.’
‘Look out there! They are coming! Take that you bastard!’
‘Oh God! Oh God! – the pain!’
Ormond Burton, New Zealand Medical Corps, quoted in Gavin McLean, Ian McGibbon & Kynan Gentry, The Penguin Book of New Zealanders at War, 2009
Day by day the sun grew hotter and hotter until it burned down scorchingly hot. There was scarcely any shade. The bivvies themselves were swelteringly hot. The ground was almost red hot. There was little stirring of air beneath the great cliffs. Men soon commenced to shed their clothing. Slacks were ripped off at the knees and the vogue of shorts commenced. Coats were flung off and then shirts. The ‘Tommy hats’ in which the New Zealanders had landed were soon thrown away and replaced by Australian felts, pith helmets or the New Zealand issue of unfortunate members of the reinforcement drafts … Within six weeks of landing the fashionable costume had become boots, shorts, identity disk, hat and when circumstances permitted a cheerful smile. The whole was topped off by a most glorious coat of sunburn.
Ormond Burton, The Silent Division, 1935http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/war/the-gallipoli-campaign/conditions
This piece of information from diary entries are from New Zealand soldiers explaining their situation. It tells us the impacts and conditions the New Zealand soldiers went through. Tells us about the sight the soldiers saw like all the wounded who were full of blood and bandages. Mostly all the soldiers were in pain and hadn't sleep due to the endless fighting. The weather was burning hot which didn't go down but got even hotter. Most soldiers got sun burnt due to their being no shade at all. This information backs up my information because it states the weather getting endlessly getting hotter and hotter also that soldiers where dying of thirst. Alot of soldiers seeked water due to the hot weather.
A periscopic view of No Man’s Land was a terrible sight – littered with jam
tins, meat tins, broken rifles and discarded equipment – every few yards a dead
body and hosts of buzzing flies. Chloride of lime, with its hateful associations,
was scattered thickly on all decaying matter, and the scent of Anzac drifted
ten miles out to sea. In this fœtid atmosphere, with the miners on both sides
burrowing under the posts like furtive rabbits, hand-grenade throwers carrying
on their nerve-wracking duels, stretcher bearers constantly carrying out the
unfortunate ones, digging and improving the trenches under a scorching sun –
is it any wonder that the men of Anzac were looked at almost pityingly by the
reinforcements and the rare visitors from Helles and the warships?
This tells us what it was like at the Battle Of Gallipoli, this tells us a description and sight of No Mans Land. No Mans land was in the center of the battle field from the two armies. it backs up my information of what no mans land was like, it was a place full rubbish and place where no one survived. It was full of junk and buzzing flies.
tins, meat tins, broken rifles and discarded equipment – every few yards a dead
body and hosts of buzzing flies. Chloride of lime, with its hateful associations,
was scattered thickly on all decaying matter, and the scent of Anzac drifted
ten miles out to sea. In this fœtid atmosphere, with the miners on both sides
burrowing under the posts like furtive rabbits, hand-grenade throwers carrying
on their nerve-wracking duels, stretcher bearers constantly carrying out the
unfortunate ones, digging and improving the trenches under a scorching sun –
is it any wonder that the men of Anzac were looked at almost pityingly by the
reinforcements and the rare visitors from Helles and the warships?
This tells us what it was like at the Battle Of Gallipoli, this tells us a description and sight of No Mans Land. No Mans land was in the center of the battle field from the two armies. it backs up my information of what no mans land was like, it was a place full rubbish and place where no one survived. It was full of junk and buzzing flies.
Christopher Pugsley's book records in harrowing detail exactly how that price was paid.The conditions at Gallipoli were beyond our imagining. "Each man's world was his area of the trench, 2 to 3m deep and perhaps the same in length with a niche in the trench wall covered by a blanket where he rested by day and tried to sleep. His belongings were a greatcoat, webbing, rifle and bayonet. His food was beef and biscuits, the first salty, the last rock hard. Bacon fat and rotten cheese and jam that ran like thin watery juice completed his fare. His water allowance was half a gallon a day, New Zealanders marvelled that the greatest empire on earth waged war in this fashion."If the basics of existence - lice, flies, dysentery - were grim, the nature of the fighting was inconceivable. As the trenches spread up the hillsides the opposing forces were within metres of each other. The dead and wounded choked the gullies and men stood on the bodies of their comrades to fight. "The first one [Turk] that Robin bowled over was so close that the blast of the machine gun set his clothes on fire."
New Zealand troops came ashore at Anzac on 25 April 1915 laden with equipment. Infantrymen carried a rifle, ammunition, bayonet, water bottle, entrenching tool, haversack, and a pack containing over 30 kilograms of extra rations, water, firewood and clothing. Individual food rations, known as ‘iron rations’, consisted of tinned bully beef, hard biscuits, tea, sugar and beef cubes. Soldiers attached most of this kit to webbing, which they wore over their uniforms.
The Turks were better supplied with weaponry than the Allies, who had to make grenades from jam tins and essential periscopes with bits of glass cut from ship's mirrors. Initially too, the medical arrangements were just as appalling. After the first days in April 1915 some of the wounded were moved to the Lutzow. "Although designated as a hospital ship for 200 seriously and 100 slightly wounded, there were only two medical men aboard, Major Young, a veterinary surgeon and a medical orderly, Private O. E. Burton."
This is a diary entry from a soldier telling us his point of view when he was at the battle of Gallipoli. Telling us the impact and Conditions he went through. This soldier explains what the trenches were like he tells how cramped place where they ate and sleep. He tells us all the food he was able to eat and how the Turkish were welly prepared with their heavy machine guns. It also backs up my information that the Turkish would be endlessly shooting and also what the New zealanders had to eat everyday.
New Zealand troops came ashore at Anzac on 25 April 1915 laden with equipment. Infantrymen carried a rifle, ammunition, bayonet, water bottle, entrenching tool, haversack, and a pack containing over 30 kilograms of extra rations, water, firewood and clothing. Individual food rations, known as ‘iron rations’, consisted of tinned bully beef, hard biscuits, tea, sugar and beef cubes. Soldiers attached most of this kit to webbing, which they wore over their uniforms.
The Turks were better supplied with weaponry than the Allies, who had to make grenades from jam tins and essential periscopes with bits of glass cut from ship's mirrors. Initially too, the medical arrangements were just as appalling. After the first days in April 1915 some of the wounded were moved to the Lutzow. "Although designated as a hospital ship for 200 seriously and 100 slightly wounded, there were only two medical men aboard, Major Young, a veterinary surgeon and a medical orderly, Private O. E. Burton."
This is a diary entry from a soldier telling us his point of view when he was at the battle of Gallipoli. Telling us the impact and Conditions he went through. This soldier explains what the trenches were like he tells how cramped place where they ate and sleep. He tells us all the food he was able to eat and how the Turkish were welly prepared with their heavy machine guns. It also backs up my information that the Turkish would be endlessly shooting and also what the New zealanders had to eat everyday.