1916: Sergeant John Robins, before evacuating Gallipoli

ExecutedToday.com ^ | January 2nd, 2012 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 1916, Sergeant John Robins of the 5th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment — demoted for the occasion to Private — was shot “at a point on the beach 400 yards North of the mouth of the Gully Ravine” for disobeying orders.

This redundantly named topography was a feature of an ill-starred (for the British) peninsula Robins’s army was quite ready to see the back of: Gallipoli.*

Winston Churchill’s brainchild for a knockout punch in the First World War had long since come to grief — the enduring grief of the British, Australian, and New Zealand troops who died by the thousands under Ottoman guns whilst attempting to seize the Dardanelles, open the Black Sea, knock the Turks out of the war, and expose the Central Powers’ soft underbelly.

It didn’t do any of those things, but it did help Mel Gibson’s career....

[ought-six]

The Australian movie “Gallipoli” from 1981 is very, very good.

[Nateman]

The scientist who essentially finished the Periodic table by establishing what atomic number elements should be was killed at Gallipoli. His name was Henry Mosley.

The man who defeated Churchill at Gallipoli was Ataturk. Ataturk separated Mosque and State in Turkey. A reform that lasted until the Erdagon turned it back to an Islamic Dictatorship.

[Darksheare]

And Erdogan sees himself as a new Ataturk or Enver Pasha.

[DesertRhino]

That was close to straight out murder.

[JonPreston]

The real Winston Churchill is mentioned in this article. Seems both he and the little greasy one you support were both poor military leaders.

[ought-six]

Nice try, Frick. In refutation of your many previous posts, it is YOU who compare Zelensky to Winston Churchill, and your most recent post proves it; as you compare Zelensky and Churchill in the same breath, so you must necessarily equate the one with the other. But, you see, Frick; I don’t, and never have.

[NFHale]

Great movie.

[StAnDeliver]

Ataturk was a murderous thug, he wasn't even a native Turk, born in Thessaloniki, Greece.

I dig that WW1 f'd Turkey over and WW2 reduced them to a regional power. They are in NATO so we can spy on them, and by proxy, the New Soviet.

Here's hoping when the balloon goes up and Turkey flips on NATO and joins those attacking Israel, that one 6th-Fleet reserve sub pops a Trident II with a lazy arc shot and flattens Erdoğan, his butt-faced family, and Constantinople, including the Moozies kissing their ass goodbye in the desecrated Hagia Sophia.

[reed13k]

There was a more recent tragedy about this campaign... phantom brigade or ....looked it up the book was ‘The Vanished Battalion’. Movie was ‘All the King’s Men.’
(1999 so not too recent)

Drove home for me how ruthless war can really get when both sides are trying to win.

[ought-six]

“Great movie.”

Yes, it was.

[ought-six]

I’ve heard of that book! A friend had mentioned it to me some time ago. I will check to see if my local library has it. Thanks for the head’s up!

[Bigg Red]

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