Why were the Gallipoli campaign casualties so great?

Answer 1

that is an easy one, they had not adapted to modern combat fighting.

they were charging machine gun nests in the wide open with charges and bayonets ready.

The Allies fought it as if it were still the Napoleonic times where the Turks who were fewer in number were able to hold off all those men solely due to the proper use of machine guns nests that created a huge field of ranges of death.

That is why so many. Then you cannot forget disease and trench foot! Some even died on their hospital ships as with the Brittania, Titanics sister ship.

Answer 2

The Gallipoli marketing campaign, also elementary because the Dardanelles marketing campaign or the conflict of Gallipoli, occurred on the peninsula of Gallipoli contained in the Ottoman Empire between 25 April 1915 and 9 January 1916, in the course of the first international conflict. A joint British and French operation changed into fastened to seize the Ottoman capital of Constantinople and guard a sea direction to Russia. The attempt failed, with heavy casualties on each and each and every aspect.

Answer 3

The British commander wasn't too bright or felt the troops were invincible. The British come in from the sea, attacking a position atop elevated land, which commands the area being invaded. The defenders were well fortified and entrenched and looking right down on the British. There was no cover to escape the firepower of the Turks., resulting in a slaughter.

Answer 4

Because the Allies had not considered the heavy Turkish defence that they would run into. The Turkish Army was much better than the attackers had thought it would be. They did not allow for the heat. Soldiers found they were running out of water with no chance of replenishment. Kitchener sent only half the number of troops that the Greeks had advised were necessary. The allied attack was uphill, which is always a recipe for disaster.The naval attack on The Dardenelles was a fiasco.

Answer 5

As an australian we're taught this stuff at school but I'm not sure how much is true. They say that the aussies were droppped off far from where they should've been dropped off. It was in a cliff instead of an open beach. There were also timing problems with the british commanders. All in all, australians tihnk they were screwed by the british.