<P> The main landings were made at' V' Beach, beneath the old Seddülbahir fortress and at' W' Beach, a short distance to the west on the other side of the Helles headland . The covering force of Royal Munster Fusiliers and Hampshires landed from a converted collier, SS River Clyde, which was run aground beneath the fortress so that the troops could disembark along ramps . The Royal Dublin Fusiliers landed at' V' Beach and the Lancashire Fusiliers at' W' Beach in open boats, on a shore overlooked by dunes and obstructed with barbed wire . On both beaches the Ottoman defenders occupied good defensive positions and inflicted many casualties on the British infantry as they landed . Troops emerging one by one from sally ports on River Clyde were shot by machine - gunners at the Seddülbahir fort and of the first 200 soldiers to disembark, 21 men reached the beach . </P> <P> The Ottoman defenders were too few to defeat the landing but inflicted many casualties and contained the attack close to the shore . By the morning of 25 April, out of ammunition and with nothing but bayonets to meet the attackers on the slopes leading up from the beach to the heights of Chunuk Bair, the 57th Infantry Regiment received orders from Kemal "I do not order you to fight, I order you to die . In the time which passes until we die, other troops and commanders can come forward and take our places ." and every man of the regiment was either killed or wounded . </P> <P> At' W' Beach, thereafter known as Lancashire Landing, the Lancashires were able to overwhelm the defenders despite the loss of 600 casualties from 1,000 men, about 70 percent casualties . Six awards of the Victoria Cross were made among the Lancashires at' W' Beach . A further six Victoria Crosses were awarded among the infantry and sailors at the' V' Beach landing and three more were awarded the following day as they fought their way inland . Five squads of Ottoman infantry led by Sergeant Yahya distinguished themselves by repulsing several attacks on their hilltop position, the defenders eventually disengaging under cover of darkness . After the landings, so few men remained from the Dublin and Munster Fusiliers that they were amalgamated into The Dubsters . Only one Dubliner officer survived the landing, while of the 1,012 Dubliners who landed, just 11 survived the Gallipoli campaign unscathed . After the landings, little was done by the Allies to exploit the situation, apart from a few limited advances inland by small groups of men . The Allied attack lost momentum and the Ottomans had time to bring up reinforcements and rally the small number of defending troops . </P> <P> On the afternoon of 27 April, the 19th Division, reinforced by six battalions from the 5th Division, counter-attacked the six Allied brigades at Anzac . With the support of naval gunfire, the Allies held back the Ottomans throughout the night . The following day the British were joined by French troops transferred from Kum Kale on the Asiatic shore to the right of the line near' S' Beach at Morto Bay . On 28 April, the Allies fought the First Battle of Krithia to capture the village . Hunter - Weston made a plan which proved overly complex and was poorly communicated to the commanders in the field . The troops of the 29th Division were still exhausted and unnerved by the battles for the beaches and for Seddülbahir village, which was captured after much fighting on 26 April . The Ottoman defenders stopped the Allied advance halfway between the Helles headland and Krithia around 6: 00 p.m., having inflicted 3,000 casualties . </P>

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