Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"The Gallipoli campaign was a bold strategic plan--typical of Winston Churchill--but disastrously flawed in execution. The aim was to take control of the Gallipoli peninsula, thereby cutting off Turkey from her German and Austrian allies and possibly forcing her out of the war. . . . A third landing at Suvla Bay also failed, and in November 1915 the cabinet bowed to the inevitable and ordered evacuation. . . . The campaign left a sense of lasting bitterness among Australians at British military incompetence and (briefly) also cost Churchill his glittering career." [Furtado: 1001 Days]