ANZAC - ‘silent stunts’

Thus to leave you–thus to part - The Evacuation of Anzac, December 1915

Kitchener spent just over two hours at Anzac surveying the Turkish line from Australian trenches inland of the Sphinx and at Lone Pine. Two days later, after further consultation with senior commanders, he recommended to the British War Cabinet that Gallipoli–Anzac, Suvla and Helles–be evacuated.
A detailed evacuation plan was devised by an Australian, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Brudenell White. This involved elaborate deception operations such as the so-called ‘silent stunts’ of late November where no artillery fire or sniping was to occur from the Anzac lines.

When he returned in October, White was promoted to Brigadier General, becoming BGGS of ANZAC, under Lieutenant General W. R. Birdwood. As such, his role was to plan the evacuation of Anzac. This became the first operation of the whole campaign to go off according to plan, and to be accomplished without loss.