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    The Battle of Chunuk Bair (Turkish: Conk Bayırı Muharebesi) was a World War I battle fought between the Ottoman defenders and troops of the British Empire...
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  • perimeter. In what became known as the Battle of Chunuk Bair, the New Zealanders failed to capture the peak by the morning of 7 August but managed the feat on...
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  • William George Malone (category New Zealand military personnel of the Second Boer War)
    Campaign, and was killed in action by friendly fire during the Battle of Chunuk Bair. Born in England, Malone emigrated to New Zealand in 1880 and joined...
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    Cyril Bassett (category New Zealand World War I recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    on the opening day of the Gallipoli Campaign, and during the Battle of Chunuk Bair he performed the actions that led to his award of the VC. Medically...
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  • Chunuk Bair is a 1992 New Zealand film based on the play Once on Chunuk Bair (1982) by Maurice Shadbolt. Set in 1915, the film tells of the Wellington...
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    Cemil Conk (category Recipients of the Order of the Medjidie, 3rd class)
    Battle of Chunuk Bair (Conk Bayırı in Turkish) during the Gallipoli campaign in World War I. After the war, he participated in the Turkish War of Independence...
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    I. After a short period of training it fought in the Gallipoli Campaign, distinguishing itself at the Battle of Chunuk Bair. Afterwards it served in...
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    Anthony Hugh Baldwin (category British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War)
    killed in action, with his entire staff, during the Battle of Chunuk Bair in 1915, while in command of the 38th Brigade. He served for 30 years with the...
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    Fevzi Çakmak (category Turkish military personnel of the Turkish War of Independence)
    the Commander of the V Corps throughout the defence of Gallipoli, during which his younger brother was killed in the Battle of Chunuk Bair. He became a...
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  • the heights of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971. 7 Anzac: Battle of the Nek At 4.30 a.m. another futile diversion virtually wipes out two regiments of the 3rd Light...
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    hundred men. The New Zealand brigade went on to fight in the Battle of Chunuk Bair and the Battle of Hill 60, and was then evacuated from the peninsula before...
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    Bair range. As part of this effort, a feint attack by Australian troops was planned at the Nek to support New Zealand troops assaulting Chunuk Bair....
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  • Battle of the Nek Battle of Chunuk Bair Battle of Hill 60 (Gallipoli) Battle of Scimitar Hill Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign Battle of Krivolak...
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    to secure the Sari Bair Range of hills at the Battle of Sari Bair and capture high ground on Hill 971 in the Battle of Chunuk Bair. Both sides had been...
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    the front line. The objective of the British August offensive was to seize Chunuk Bair, a high point in the Sari Bair mountain range. The New Zealand...
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    many of the major battles throughout the Gallipoli campaign, such as the Battle of Chunuk Bair, Battle of Scimitar Hill and the Battle of Sari Bair. The...
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    New Zealand and Australian Division (category Divisions of New Zealand in World War I)
    designed to break the deadlock. During this period, the division attacked Chunuk Bair and Hill 971, and then later Hill 60. These efforts failed, and as winter...
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    Arthur Bauchop (category New Zealand Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    Mounted Rifles during the Gallipoli Campaign, and died of wounds received during the Battle of Chunuk Bair. Born on 27 February 1870 in Port Chalmers, near...
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    around Sari Bair, Chunuk Bair and Hill 971, which became known as the August Offensive. At Lone Pine, the assaulting force, initially consisting of the Australian...
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    for mountain pass, as part of the Battle of Chunuk Bair. Because the terrain created a bottleneck, delays at Chunuk Bair prevented early reinforcements...
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  • was captured by Allied troops on 6 August 1915 at the start of the Battle of Chunuk Bair but lost on 10 August in the overwhelming Turkish counter-attack...
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    10th (Irish) Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
    Bay and the August offensive. Some battalions of the division were landed at Anzac and fought at Chunuk Bair. In September 1915, when the Suvla front became...
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    13th (Western) Division (category Infantry divisions of the British Army in World War I)
    beneath Chunuk Bair known as The Farm. When the Ottomans counter-attacked on the morning of 10 August the 13th (Western) Division troops on Chunuk Bair and...
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  • Daybreak Pacific (category Television production companies of New Zealand)
    direct much of the work. Chunuk Bair is a film, based on Maurice Shadbolt's play Once on Chunuk Bair. Set during the Gallipoli campaign of World War I...
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    first action on 8 August in the Battle of Chunuk Bair, during which it suffered over 820 casualties, including all of its officers, warrant officers and...
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    Albert Jacka (category Australian Gallipoli campaign recipients of the Victoria Cross)
    He became company sergeant major of C Company, and saw much fighting at Gallipoli where, during August at Chunuk Bair, Hill 971, and Hill 60, his battalion...
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  • Allied Chunuk Bair – New Zealand Lone Pine Memorial – Australia and New Zealand Hill 60 – New Zealand Turkish Sergeant Mehmet's Memorial Chunuk Bair Soldiers’...
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    Lists of battles Before 301 301–1300 1301–1600 1601–1800 1801–1900 1901–2000 2001–current Naval Sieges See also This article lists all the battles that...
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  • 2005, p. 1052. Tucker 2005, p. 299. Duffy, Michael (2009-08-22). "The Battle of Bolimov, 1915". Firstworldwar.com. Archived from the original on 2006-09-03...
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    Harry Chauvel (category Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath)
    gaining victories in the Battle of Romani in August and the Battle of Magdhaba in December, and nearly winning the First Battle of Gaza in March 1917. The...
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