Poem ~ Another Front Opens - Saturday, 24 April 1915

With all greater need for secrecy,

Censorship had been raised

About the imminent allied activity,

In the sea regions of Turkey.

Yet reports had been coming in,

About the named places of Enos,

Lemnos and Gallipoli peninsula.

With shipping lanes suspended

All Italian Trans-Atlantic Liners

Were formed into cruisers such

Transports landed troops at Enos.

20,000 French and English landed

At Turkey's most Westerly Point,

In the Aegean Sea, close to Maritza.

The river a natural waterway from

Adrianpole - while it is reported that

35,000 French and British troops,

Land at Mudros on Lemnos island.

Once named as the Hellespont,

Then became the Dardanelles;

A natural scar of geography.

A strategic value to the Russians

And European allies, were waters

Between of Aegean and Marmara;

The strait being in Turk's control.

Along a Turk defended coastline,

East of Dardanelles lay 'Beautiful

City’ - being the Gallipoli peninsula.

From stories of antiquity, these

Rocks were to become a new part

Of history for Australian peoples;

1915 had matters moving a pace.

Sound bites state Turk evacuation

Of Enos port - as British force lands,

Turks erect forts, under artillery fire.

by Jamie Mann.

Anon.,1915. The Dardanelles Force. The New Zealand Herald, [online] 24 Apr. P.6. Col.4-5. Available at: http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZH19150424&e=-------10--1----0-- [Accessed: 24 April 2015].

Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 24 April 2015). 

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