They press on the true bull dog rush of our troops at Gallipoli Turkey World War I Launched in March the Allied landings on the Gallipoli peninsula were intended to establish a supply route to Russia throught the Black Sea via the Dardanelles straits The operation was a failure redeemed slightly by a successful evacuation of the Allied forces completed in January The month campaign resulted in Allied casualties and damaged the career of Winston Churchill First Lord of the Admiralty who commissioned the operation From a box set of stereoscopic cards titled The Great War