Chunuk Bair – School Journal Level 3 June 2014

Chunuk Bair – School Journal Level 3 June 2014

This is a poem and accompanying text about the brutal battle for Chunuk Bair during the Gallipoli campaign in August 1915. It describes the brief capture of the peak by New Zealanders and the devastating Turkish counter-attack led by the Ottoman commander, Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk).