British Division at Gully Beach, Gallipoli

The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division of the British army dug in at Gully Beach in the Dardanelles, 1915. The battle between Allied forces and Turkish forces at the Gallipoli Peninsula for access to the strategic Sea of Mamora and eventually to Constantinople (Istanbul) was a disastrous military campaign for the Allies. In February 1915 Turkish mines sank 6 British battleships, causing the naval assault on the Dardanelles to stall. A second Allied landing at Gallipoli failed in August and British forces evacuated Gallipoli in November 1915. | Location: Gully Ravine, Gallipoli, Turkey. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)