ANZAC Q&A - What was the weather like at Gallipoli?

Q.   What was the weather like at Gallipoli?

A.   When the soldiers landed on the shore at Gallipoli in late spring the climate was very pleasant, however, the peninsula was subjected to extremes in temperature. During summer, the mercury soared and remained that way through the night, preventing the soldiers from being able to rest. This was later followed by freezing blizzards and frost in winter. Torrential rainstorms flooded the trenches and made the battlefields resemble dams of mud; some downfalls were so extreme that they washed bodies from shallow graves into the trenches and some British soldiers at Suvla drowned in their trenches.

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