HOW BIG WAS THE ANZAC BATTLE AREA? |
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- There was no break-out
from the Gallipoli Peninsular.. There was only
limited expansion of the initial landing areas.
Names such as Walker's Ridge, Russell's Top,
Pope's Hill, Quinn's Post, Courtney's Post,
Steele's Post, Lone Pine and The Nek achieved
major significance in Australian military
history, synonymous with courage, tenacity and
sacrifice yet the whole battle ground fought
over by thousands of troops fitted into an area
less than six kilometres north to south and two
to two and one half kilometres east to west,
indeed inland from ANZAC Cove, the furthermost
trenches were less than one kilometre from the
beach.
Except for one brief period in early May when
the 2nd Australian Brigade and the New Zealand
Brigade were ordered temporarily to Cape Helles
to bolster the exhausted British and French
troops there, the ANZACs fought doggedly for
eight months in an area no bigger than ten
square kilometres.
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