Battles of Krithia

Battles of Krithia
Part of the Gallipoli campaign of World War I
60-pounder in action.
Third Battle of Krithia
Date28 April – 13 August 1915
Location
Krithia, Gallipoli, Ottoman Empire
40°04′44″N 26°12′14″E / 40.07889°N 26.20389°E / 40.07889; 26.20389
Result Ottoman victory
Belligerents

Allied Powers:
 United Kingdom and Empire

 France		 Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
British Empire Aylmer Hunter-Weston
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Br-Gen. H.E. Street
British Empire Joseph Trumpeldor
French Third Republic Antoine Masnou		 Ottoman Empire Halil Sami Bey
Ottoman Empire Trommer Paşa
Ottoman Empire Fevzi Çakmak
German Empire Otto Liman von Sanders[1]
German Empire Erich Weber
Casualties and losses
18,121 casualties[2][1][3][4] 14,888 casualties[5][6][7]

During the Gallipoli campaign in 1915, several battles were fought near the village of Krithia, today Alçıtepe.[8] The village was an objective of the first day of the landing, 25 April 1915. Over the following months, invading British Empire (including the 89th Punjabis of the British Indian Army) and French troops, who had landed near Cape Helles at the end of the peninsula, made several attempts to capture the village. It was never reached; the Ottoman defenders successfully repulsed every assault.

The attacks came to be known as:

Krithia is in square 23. Cape Helles is in square 13

References

  1. 1 2 Gariepy 2014, p. 148.
  2. ↑ Aspinall-Oglander 1932, p. 294.
  3. ↑ Aspinall-Oglander, Official History of the Great War, Military Operations, Gallipoli, Cilt 2
  4. ↑ ATASE, Çanakkale, pp.284–289
  5. ↑ ATASE, Çanakkale 3, pp.72-73
  6. ↑ ATASE, Çanakkale, pp.316–328
  7. ↑ C. F. Aspinall-Oglander, Military Operations. Gallipoli. Volume 2. p.176
  8. ↑ The Times History of the War. 1916. pp. 81–82.
  9. ↑ Corbett, Julian Stafford (1920). Naval Operations ...: From the Battle of the Falklands to the entry of Italy into the war in May 1915. Longmans, Green and Company. pp. 349–382.

Bibliography

  • Aspinall-Oglander, C. F. (1992) [1932]. Military Operations Gallipoli: May 1915 to the Evacuation. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. II (Imperial War Museum and Battery Press ed.). London: Heinemann. ISBN 0-89839-175-X.
  • Gariepy, P. (2014). Gardens of Hell: Battles of the Gallipoli Campaign. Potomac Books Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-61234-683-0.
  • Chambers, Stephen (2021). Krithia: Gallipolli. Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 9781473875500.


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