The Condition for the troops was awful.  In the blistering summer heat and with decaying corpses laying between no man's land between the trenches, on 20th of May both sides agreed a one-day truce.  They frantically buried the dead.  Some Turks and Allied troops met and exchanged greetings.  At sunset they returned to their trenches.  And the next day the killing started again.

Both sides couldn't break the deadlock and both poured more troops in the area.  In August another landing was made at Suvla Bay, but again the troops could not break through the defences of the Turks.

One part of the Allies' campaign in the Dardanelles was successful.  Submarines did get through the minefield of the strait to attack Constantinople harbour.  Turkish warships, troopships and merchant vessels were sunk in such numbers that the Turkish war effort was seriously affected.  But the main fleet never again attempted to go through.

In November the troops at Gallipoli were facing a new problem - frostbite.  The hard Turkish winter had closed in.  The troops were extremely ill-equipped.  In one snowstorm there were 16, 000 cases of frostbite and 300 deaths.

In December, eight months after the landing, there was no prospect of success.  Tens of thousands of soldiers lay dead around the coasts of Gallipoli.  The decision was taken to pull out.  The withdrawal was supremely well organised and was a complete success.  The campaign, however, was seen as a failure and Churchill was humiliated.