First Name: | Percy John | Last Name: | WARDEN | |
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Date of Death: | 04/07/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Twickenham | |
Rank: | Gunner | Unit: | Royal Horse Artillery | |
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Current Information:Age-25 38, Chestnut Road, Twickenham Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Helles, Gallipoli
On 25 April, British, Australian and New Zealand forces landed on the Gallipoli peninsular . 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. By the middle of June 1915, there had been three attempts at Helles to capture the village of Krithia and the heights of Achi Baba beyond it and all three had failed at great cost of human life. Future plans now revolved around fresh divisions arriving from Britain but that was still six weeks off and 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. Percy Warden of B Battery, XV Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, which was attached to the 29th Division, was killed in action on 4th July, 1915, probably as a result of the artillery war that was a constant feature of Gallipoli.
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