First Name: | Ernest | Last Name: | NEARS | |
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Date of Death: | 10/05/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Barking | |
Rank: | Private | Unit: | New Zealand Auckland Battalion | |
Memorial Site: | Barking Memorial | |||
Current Information:
Age-30
44, Sunningdale Avenue, Barking Alexandria (Chatby) Military & 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. The fighting soon degenerated into trench warfare with the Allies unable to break out of their toe holds on the tip of the Helles peninsular and at ANZAC Cove. The Turkish soldiers were much tougher fighters than they had been given credit for and they were of course fighting an invasion of their homeland. The terrain, a series of steep rocky ridges and deep gullies made the fighting much more difficult and during the hot summer of 1915, the flies arrived in biblical proportions. By January 1916, all British, Australian and New Zealand forces had left Gallipoli, leaving only behind the dead, over 56,000 of them.
The Auckland Battalion of the New Zealand army had landed at ANZAC Cove in April 1915 and at the beginning of May were brought across to Helles to take part in the Second Battle of Krithia. Ernest Nears died of wounds on 10th May having been taken from Gallipoli to Egypt but there is no information as yet as to when or where he was wounded. |
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