* 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair – the Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

* August 6 – WWI – Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.

The 13th suffered heavy casualties retreating from Suvla and landing and later evacuating from Helles before being shifted to Mesopotamia in March 1916.

Two famous examples in which the attackers failed to expand their beachheads before the defending side could bring up reinforcements occurred during the landing at Suvla Bay in the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I, and the amphibious landing at Anzio during World War II.

The following morning, Archy and Frank are ordered to take part in the charge at the Nek, which is to act as a diversion in support of the British landing at Suvla Bay ( note, this is not the historical reasoning for actual attack ; see the Battle of the Nek ).

The General is informed that, at Suvla, the British landing party is brewing tea on the beach.

Other critics, Carlyon included, have pointed out that the Australian attack at the Nek was a diversion for the New Zealanders ' attack on Sari Bair, not the British landing at Suvla.

* The landing at Suvla.

In August an offensive ( which later became known as the Battle of Sari Bair ) was intended to break the deadlock by capturing the high ground of the Sari Bair range, and linking the Anzac front with a new landing to the north at Suvla.

The battle is depicted in the climax of Peter Weir's 1981 movie, Gallipoli, where it inaccurately portrays the offensive as a diversion to reduce Ottoman opposition to the landing at Suvla Bay.

The main operation started on 6 August with a fresh landing north of Anzac at Suvla Bay in conjunction with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps mounting an attack north into the rugged country alongside the Sari Bair range with the aim of capturing the high ground and linking with the Suvla landing.

A new British landing was also considered likely but Suvla was not rated highly as a candidate, consequently only a modest force of four battalions defended the area.

As the shape of the new front line firmed, General Hamilton planned one further attack to try to link the Suvla landing to Anzac.

Hill 60 was a low knoll at the northern end of the Sari Bair range which dominated the Suvla landing.

The purpose of the attack was to remove the immediate Ottoman threat from the exposed Suvla landing and to link with the Anzac sectors to the south.

On the night of 6 August, at the same time as the British IX Corps began landing at Suvla to the north, the breakout from the Anzac sector was made by units of the New Zealand and Australian Division under the command of General Alexander Godley, who was known for his callous indifference to the plight of his troops.

The British tried another landing at Suvla Bay, but this also was halted by the Ottoman defenders.

The IX Corps was originally formed in England in 1915 in readiness to make a new landing at Suvla during the Battle of Gallipoli.

He used two regiments of the Ottoman 9th Division to guard the likely landing sites along the Aegean shore of the peninsula from Helles to north of Suvla.

In a second landing at Suvla in August, the forerunner of modern landing craft — the armoured ' Beetle '— was first used by the British.

He was the second to last man to be evacuated from Suvla Bay ( the last being General F. S.

In mid-August, however, Maude was instead given charge of the 13th Division in Suvla.

He was the last man evacuated from Suvla Bay.

It was at this time that the men were sent to Suvla Bay, and took part in the Gallipoli campaign.

Formed in Ireland on 21 August 1914, the 10th Division was sent to Gallipoli where, as part of General Sir Frederick Stopford's IX Corps, at Suvla Bay on August 7 it participated in the disastrous Landing at Cape Helles and the August offensive.

In September, 1915, when the Suvla front became a stalemate, the division was moved to Salonika where it remained for two years.

At the beginning of October the Division was moved from Anzac to Suvla Bay.

After being evacuated from Suvla, the 13th Division was ordered to reinforce the British forces at Cape Helles.

At Suvla, the Battle of Scimitar Hill on 21 August was the final push of the failed August Offensive.

It was launched on 21 August 1915 to coincide with the attack on Scimitar Hill made from the Suvla front by General Stopford's British IX Corps.

The Battle of Scimitar Hill ( Yusufçuk Tepe ) was the last offensive mounted by the British at Suvla during the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I.

In August a new offensive, known as the Battle of Sari Bair, was opened at Suvla in an attempt to regain the initiative from the Ottomans.

Two divisions of Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Stopford's IX Corps were landed at Suvla on the night of 6 August while a simultaneous breakout was made from the long-stagnant Anzac sector to the south of Suvla.

The attack at Scimitar Hill on 21 August was the last attempt by the British to advance at Suvla.

The Division was initially based in Egypt but was sent dismounted to Suvla on the Gallipoli peninsula as reinforcements during the Battle of Sari Bair.

Longford's body was never recovered as the British made no further advances before the evacuation of Suvla on 20 December.

The Ottomans anticipated that the offensive would involve a breakout from Anzac but were unsure whether it would be north ( towards Suvla ) or south ( towards Gaba Tepe ).

Capturing this hill along with Scimitar Hill would have allowed the Anzac and Suvla landings to be securely linked.

However, just as the original landing site at Helles in April had insufficient space to land all the troops available, and so a secondary landing was to be made north of Gaba Tepe, now in July there was insufficient room to accommodate all the new troops within the congested Anzac perimeter, nor was there room to manoeuvre them in battle, and so a new landing at Suvla was planned which would link up with the forces at Anzac.

The Suvla landing was to be made by the newly formed British IX Corps, initially comprising two brigades of the 10th ( Irish ) Division and the entire 11th ( Northern ) Division.

Stopford and Reed also wanted the 34th Brigade of the 11th Division to be landed within Suvla Bay itself.

The British staff had estimated that it would take the Ottoman divisions at Bulair 36 hours to reach Suvla — they could be expected to arrive on the evening of 8 August.