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Updated: June 14, 2025
Broadly, he thinks that we are so short of ammunition and particularly of high explosive shell that there is every prospect of our getting tied up on an extended line across the Peninsula in front of the Kilid Bahr trenches. Should the enemy submarines arrive we should be "up a tree." The cards in the game of life are the characters of men. Staking on those cards I take my own opinions always.
Sari Bair is the "keep" to the Narrows; Chunuk Bair and Hill 305 are its keys: i.e., from those points the Turkish trenches opposite Birdwood can be enfiladed: the land and sea communications of the enemy holding Maidos, Kilid Bahr and Krithia can be seen and shelled and, in fact, any strong force of Turks guarding the European side of the Narrows can then be starved out, whilst a weak force will not long resist Gouraud and Hunter-Weston.
Going to an observation post he saw a battleship aground off Gaba Tepe Point. The morning mists had just revealed her, and now she was emptying her broadsides in rapid succession up the great valley below Kilid Bahr. Another battleship was right alongside attempting, apparently, to push her off.
We drove down to the sea and along the beach road through Maidos bombarded several weeks before, cross-country from the Aegean, and nothing now but bare, burnt walls on to Kilid Bahr, jammed with camels and ox-carts and soldiers, and then on toward the end of the peninsula. We were now beyond the Narrows and the Dardanelles.
All the coast between Suvla Bay and for a little way South of Gaba Tepe seems feasible for landing. I mean we could get ashore on a calm day if there was no enemy. Gaba Tepe itself would be ideal, but, alas, the Turks are not blind; it is a mass of trenches and wire. Further, it must be well under fire of guns from Kilid Bahr plateau, and is entirely commanded by the high ridge to the North of it.
'We must get hold of a boat, said Ken with decision. 'That's our only chance. 'Lead on, sonny, said Roy 'that is, if you know where to find one. 'I haven't much more notion than you, Roy. But there's just this in our favour that I know there's a little cove south of Kilid Bahr.
When the ships pushed on up the strait toward Kilid Bahr and Chanak Kale somewhat like trying to run the Narrows at New York there was a different story. They were now within range of shore batteries and there were anchored mines and mines sent down on the tide.
We said good-by to the colonel, for our passes took us but to the valley, and he had stretched a point in sending us down the plateau the evening before, and I bumped back to Kilid Bahr.
We moved to the map in the window and Callwell took us through a plan of attack upon the Forts at the Dardanelles, worked out by the Greek General Staff. Their landing was to have taken place on the North-west coast of the Southern part of the Peninsula, opposite Kilid Bahr.
Now, as the two fugitives crouched on the eastern side of a steeply sloping hill, they were so near that they could distinctly see the flashes from the muzzles through the darkness of the night. 'That's either Fort Degetman or Kilid Bahr, said Ken in a low voice. 'Ah, there are two. The right-hand one the one to the south is Kilid Bahr.
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