Dardanelles & Lancs Fusiliers help please

[David W]

A friend lost a relative whilst serving with B Coy 1/6 Batt Lancs Fusliers on 7 Aug 1915 during the Dardanelles campaign.

Would be most grateful if anyone could advise details of action that day .

Many thanks

[michaeldr]

They were fighting on the Helles front, at a place called The Vineyard

"Objectives taken with hand to hand fighting and enemy counter attacks repulsed"

details from Westlake's 'British Regiments at Gallipoli' ISBN 0 85052 511 X

[michaeldr]

Some more details, this time from the British OH

"On the right, where the Turkish position was weaker, the four battalions of Lancashire Fusiliers at first made some progress, and small parties of the 1/6th and 1/7th Battalions under Major W J Law, succeeded in reaching the enemy's second line. But the Turks drove them back with a counter-attack, and by midday the only portion of the captured position still in British hands was a small vineyard west of the Krithia road, behind the Turkish front line, and a short length of trench on either side of it. During the afternoon further efforts were made by the Fusiliers to recapture some of the ground, but in each case they were again forced to retire.

At nightfall the troops in the vineyard were still holding out gamely, but everywhere else the 125th Brigade was back in its own lines."

[michaeldr]

This map may help

[ander11]

On the LLt There are some books that can be downloaded on the dardenelles

you should get some information from them Ian Anderson

[David W]

Many thanks all for your informatio it is much appreciated. I will try and relate it to a modern map of the area

David W