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Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt

Gallipoli 1915

On 25 April, British, Australian and New Zealand forces landed on the Gallipoli peninsula. The plan was that these forces would soon defeat a demoralised Turkish army, knock Turkey out of the war, open up the Mediterranean to the Russian navy and threaten Austro-Hungary from the south. None of these things were achieved despite nine months of hard fighting in terrible conditions. It was a heroic failure.

The 1st Essex battalion of 88 Brigade, 29th Division had landed at Helles on the first day of the campaign, 25th April, 1915, and had been involved in much of the fighting on the peninsula since that date. Henry Bennett died from unspecified causes on 24th August after having been sent back to Alexandria in Egypt but it is not known if he had been wounded or died from disease.