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Age-21

13, Osborne Road, Harringay

Shrapnel Valley Cemetery, Gallipoli

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 an heroic failure.

The Australian and New Zealand divisions had landed at ANZAC Cove to the north of where the British had come ashore at Helles, but the rugged nature of the terrain and the determined defence put up by the Turks meant that the hoped for break out from their beach head did not happen. By July, 1915, new divisions from Britain were on their way and would be arriving at the end of the month and further attacks would have to wait for these necessary reinforcements. In the meantime it was a matter of holding the line and through a series of small attacks and raids trying to undermine, often literally, the Turkish positions. Frederick Tassell died of wounds on 12th July, 1915,  but as yet there is no information as to when and where he was wounded.