26th-27th Apr. 1915 “ANZAC” AND HELLES

ANZAC to Amiens - Chapter VIII – “Anzac” and Helles
On the third day, April 27th, Mustafa Kemal, having been reinforced by two regiments, attempted a general counter-attack. But the warships’ guns caught the main attack as it tried to move down Baby 700 and scattered the Turks like ants on a disturbed anthill - after this experience never again until August did the Turks at Anzac attempt to move down slopes exposed to the warships’ guns. At Quinn’s and the posts south of it they were mown down by rifle fire; and on the right, where they again attacked by night, an Australian battery, which by then Lieut.-Colonel C. Rosenthal had managed to have dragged to the firing line, helped to sweep other assaulting lines away.
Along much of the front the garrison was not even aware it had been attacked.