A/N: As a man of history and alternate history, I am writing a story to honor the Aussies, Kiwis, Brits, Irish, Indians, Canadians, French, and Turks that fell at Gallipoli, whilst taking a break from my LONG, and still ongoing "The Missing Twin" story.
These characters are rather real or my OCs. All OCs are mine.
It's called The Bloodier Doomsday and will last 164 chapters.
This story is supposed to be 50% History and 50% Alternate History, so enjoy, if you are a historian or alternate historian.
Enjoy the story, respect to the men who passed long ago, the countries involved, and God bless 'em, as they all fought in the bloodiest ways.
Lest we forget... and may we. Never. FORGET.
NOTE: This story will involve some heavy cursing, mostly from the Aussies and Kiwis, (as they do curse a lot and drink anything in sight IRL,) so be warned, along with blood, gore and a few parts of horror. Also, a couple flashbacks of the past of the men will be in this story as well.
(It's good for them to curse a lot and drink anything in sight.)
These are the primary main characters, both historical and OC's, as to not get anyone and my fellow historians and fellow alternate historians confused:
-General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, GCB, GCMG, DSO, TD, main commander of Allied forces in Gallipoli.
-Brigade Commander Enver Pasha, main commander of Turkish forces in Gallipoli.
-Lieutenant Colonel Mustafa Kemal Bey, an important main commander of Turkish forces in Gallipoli.
-His Grace Lieutenant Colonel Duke Baron Sir Lord Mason "Dipper" Pines, The 12th Duke of Latham, 1st Baron Pines, The Lord Pines, VC, DSO, DCM, MC, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, GCB, GBE, GCMG, KT, KG, KP, CH, OM, IOM, ISO, PC, DL, JP, DSC, DSM, the main Royal Naval Division (RND) Commander at Gallipoli, who wishes to protect his cousin, who's a private, and his twin sister, who is onboard the hospital ship, the HMHS Thurso, and his wife, Dame Wendy Pines (neé Corduroy), DBE, DCVO, DCMG, DCB, LG, LT, the Duchess of Latham, Lady Pines, when the war's over.
-The Right Honourable Sergeant-Major Baron Sir Lincoln Loud, 1st Baron Loud, The Lord Loud, DSO, KCSI, KCVO, KCMG, CB, KT, KG, KP, FRS, FRSE, the only son and sixth child of the Lord Orkney and the main commander of the New Zealand Imperial Force (NZIF) and, as he was a Scot, the Royal Horse Division (RHD).
-His Grace Lieutenant General Duke Count Baron Sir Lynn Loud Sr., VC, DSO, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, GCMG, GBE, GCB, OM, KT, KG, KP, CH, FRS, FRSE, 1st Viscount Loud, 1st Duke of Rothlin, 11th Baron Orkney, The Lord Orkney, and he is the Main Commander of the Auckland Battalion and of the Royal Cork Regiment.
-Her Grace Sergeant-Major Countess Dame Lady Lynn Loud Jr., VC, DSO, DBE, DCVO, DCB, LT, LG, DCM, MC, RRC, The Countess of Douglas, Lincoln's older sister by 2 years (as she is the fifth oldest sister in the Loud Family Dynasty), and the fifth daughter of The Lord Orkney, and The Chief Nurse onboard the HMHS Thurso, an Allied hospital ship, just like the HMHS Britannic, Titanic's and Olympic's younger sister and the last ship in the Olympic class of the White Star Line.
-The Right Honourable Sergeant Dame Lady Mabel Pines, DSO, DBE, DCVO, DCMG, DCB, RRC, LG, LT, DCM, CSI, the Assistant Chief Nurse onboard the Thurso.
-Private Dipper Pines, DSO, MC, TD, VD, a young man who joined the army rather recently, Mabel and Mason's younger cousin, and Robbie's main rival.
-Lance Corporal Robert "Robbie" Ludington, DCM, MC, TD, VD, a junior commander of the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, and Dipper's main enemy, a man also known for drunkenness.
-Colonel Sir John George Stewart-Murray, The Marquess of Tullibardine, The Lord Tullibardine, KT, GCVO, CB, DSO, MP, PC, ADC, a senior commander of the 3rd Yeomanry Brigade of the Royal Horse Guards, the 16th Cavalry Brigade of The Scottish Horse, the Blair Horse Brigade, and the 18th Yeomanry Division of The Royal Scots Fusiliers, all dismounted.
-Major General Sir Alexander John Godley, GCB, KCMG, one of the main ANZAC division commanders in Gallipoli, who was able to survive the war and thankfully live a good life back home in Britain, after the war, as presumably obvious.
-Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG, another main ANZAC division commander in Gallipoli, killed early on in the campaign by infection due to a fatal wound in the leg by a Turkish sniper.
-Lieutenant General Baron Sir William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, The Lord Birdwood, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCVO, CIE, DSO, who was the main commander of the ANZAC force in Gallipoli.
-Major General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston, KCB, DSO, main commander of the British 29th Division in Gallipoli.
-Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, commander of the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron, the main Allied Naval Squadron in Gallipoli.
-Lieutenant General Sir Frederick William Stopford, KCB, KCVO, KCMG, General Officer in command of the British IX Corps or (9th Corps.)
-General Otto Liman von Sanders, the main commander of the Fifth Ottoman Army during Gallipoli, and the main German commander for the Ottoman Army during the whole entirety of the campaign.
-Brigadier General Sir Cyril Brudenell White, KCB, KCMG, DSO, Chief of Staff to Major General Bridges and Chief of Staff to Lieutenant General Birdwood.
-Colonel Sir Walter Pipon Braithwaite, GCB, Chief of Staff to General Hamilton for the Mediterranean Expedition.
-Brigadier General Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker, KCB, KCMG, DSO, the ANZAC Corps' Chief of Staff, then the temporary commander of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade, then the permanent commander of the 1st Australian Infantry Brigade, THEN the temporary commander of the 1st Australian Division, then finally, the permanent commander of the 1st Division for the rest of the campaign and the war.
-Brigadier General Cecil Faber Aspinall-Oglander, CMG, a trusted aide of General Hamilton during Gallipoli.
-Admiral Sir Cecil Fiennes Thursby, KCB, KCMG, DL, JP, Main Commander of the 2nd Battle Squadron and 5th Squadron.
-Commodore Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, GCB, KCVO, CMG, DSO, a future Baron who was attempting to clear the Kephez Minefield in the Dardanelles Strait during Gallipoli.
-Captain Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, the Main Official War Correspondent for Australia at Gallipoli, who came back to the battlefield in 1920.
-Lieutenant Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, CBE, MP, the main British War Correspondent at Gallipoli.
-Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch, a Main Political War Correspondent for Australia during Gallipoli and a friend of Ashmead-Bartlett, whom both exposed General Hamilton for his handiness of the Campaign.
-Brigadier General Frederic Godfrey Hughes, CB, VD, Brigade Commander of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade.
-Lieutenant Colonel John Macquarie Antill, CB, CMG, Brigade Major and Acting Commander of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade.
-Lieutenant Colonel Noel Brazier, Commander of the 10th Light Horse Brigade.
-Colonel William George Malone, VD, TD, Commander of the Wellington Battalion of New Zealand.
-His Excellency The Right Honourable Field Marshal Sir Herbert Horatio Kitchener, The Earl Kitchener, The Lord Kitchener, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC, Minister of War in Great Britain, who overlooked Gallipoli.
-The First Lord of the Admiralty, Major and Temporary Lieutenant Colonel, and the future Prime Minister The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA, who also overlooked the war effort with Field Marshal Kitchener.
-General Baron Sir Mason Pines, 2nd Baron Littham, The Lord Littham, VC, KCVO, KCMG, KBE, KT, KG, KP, DSO, JP, ADC, Commander of the Newfoundland Expeditionary Force (NEF) at Gallipoli, and a relative/a cousin of both the Kiwi Dipper Pines and the British Mason Pines and Mabel Pines.
-The Right Honourable Field Marshal Count Baron Sir David Gregory Williams III, The Count of Hanover, 1st Baron Williams, The Lord Williams, VC, DSO, GCB, GCMG, GBE, GCVO, GCSI, GCIE, KT, KG, KP, ADC, DL, PC, FRS, FRSE, RA, FZS, FRGS, Commander of the Hanover-Hanseatic Brigade, comprising of Germans and German deserters who had fled to Britain from Germany after WWI had officially begun.
-His Grace Brigadier General Baron Sir Edward Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson, 1st Baron Jersey, The Lord Jersey, VC, DSO, GCSI, GCVO, GCB, GBE, DSM, CMG, KT, KP, KG, OM, the Main Commander of the Royal Plymouth Fusiliers and South African Royal Expeditionary Corps (SAREC).
-Corporal William Scurry, DCM, MC, Mentioned in Dispatches, the inventor of the famous Drip Rifle.
-Captain Sir Michael Carlson Edwards, 1st Viscount Edwards, 1st Baron Edwards-Flinders, The Lord Edwards-Flinders, VC, DSO and Bar, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GCSI, GCIE, DL, JP, RA, FRS, Junior Chief of Staff to Major General Bridges, Senior Chief of Staff to Major General Harrison and Commander of the 1st and 2nd Light Horse Brigades.
-Major General Sir Richard Mitchell Harrison, 1st Viscount Harrison, 1st Baron Bass, The Lord Bass, DSO, DSC, KBE, GCIE, GCVO, GCMG, GCIE, CH, CB, DL, FZS, FRS, FRSE, RA, Main Commander of all Light Horse Brigades and The Australian 13th Cavalry Regiment.
-Brigadier General Grand Duke Baron Sir Thomas Garrett Williams Jr., The Grand Duke of Brunswick, 1st Baron Waverness, The Lord Waverness, DCM, OM, KCB, KBE, DSO, KCVO, GCMG, GCSI, GCIE, VD, TD, OM, CH, DL, JP, ADC, Commander of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) and the 16th Gurkha Brigade, along with being a younger nephew of the Lord Williams.
-Prime Minister The Right Honourable Sir Herbert Henry Asquith, KG, PC, KC, FRS, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Great Britain and the British Empire.
-Defense Minister The Right Honourable Sir David Lloyd George, OM, KStJ, PC, the Defense Minister and the future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Great Britain and the British Empire.
-General Sir John Monash, GCMG, KCB, VD, DSM, one of the main commanders of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), a part of the ANZAC invasion force on Gallipoli.
-Generalfeldmarschall Gräf Sir Wilhelm Gustavson von Schwaben, PlM, IC (1st Class), OBE, OMPC, ORE, RHOH, GHD, OC, MMC, MOMJ, MOBC, COS, OC, MMO, HOF, OGL, OSG, CBE, GCMG, KG, the Count of Westphalia, the Defense Minister of Germany and von Sanders' mentor.
-His Grace General Count Baron Sir Arthur Cullen Williams IV, The Count of Lower Saxony, 1st Baron Mersey, The Lord Mersey, VC, DSO, DCM, KCMG, KCVO, KStJ, OM, CH, JP, DL, the leader of the Saxon Expeditionary Corps (SEC), who were Saxon refugees who fled to Britain.
-His Grace Lieutenant Colonel Duke Baron Sir Thomas Ross, 1st Duke of Tanganyika, 1st Baron Ross, The Lord Ross, VC, DSO, KCMG, KCIE, KCVO, KStJ, KCSI, KCB, TD, VD, who commanded the African Expeditionary Corps (AEC) during Gallipoli and respected his men greatly, raising morale for his men.
-Sergeant Sir (Hon.) Donald Williams II, MOH, DSM, SSM, DSC, SCM, PCM, GCB (Hon.), KCMG (Hon.), a neutral American newspaper editor, a friend of both Colonel Roosevelts, the now dead J.P. Morgan Sr., and the House of Windsor, who was the former commander of the 72nd Infantry Division, nicknamed "The Grand Americana Infantry", but who retired due to health problems and severe depression in 1914, and he survived the Empress of Ireland disaster, one of the couple lucky ones, who came to Gallipoli to report for the Americans on the Allied side and the Ottoman and German prisoners.
-Colonel Sir James Thomas Roosevelt, MOH, SSM, DSM, NC, DSC, CGM, SCM, PCM, GCB, GCMG, a Democratic Senator for New York, a younger cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, the former President, Governor of New York, and Colonel during the Spanish-American War, a friend of Sgt. Wilson, King George V, Prince George, Duke of York, Charles Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, George Washington Carver, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Sir Roger Casement, Michael Collins, Joseph Conrad, General John J. Pershing, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Sr., and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, along with being a friend of the assassinated President William McKinley and also another friend of the dead J.P. Morgan Sr., basically a friend of Poles, Germans, Brits, Scots, Irishmen, Canadians, Welshmen, and Americans, who is in Gallipoli for observation purposes, as he likes war, but he doesn't and always never will respect the atrocities war has to always bring, but he loves to drink freezing cold scotch and warm Kentucky Bourbon.
Now, since that's all the main characters, and there are many others, but those were the important ones, now, here we go... into the depths of historical hell.
PROLOGUE: The Beginning of Hell.
On June 28th, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife, the Archduchess Sophie, were killed by Gavrilo Princip, a 19 year old Bosnian Serb, a member of the Serbian Nationalist Group "The Black Hand", who killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Throne and his wife for the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from Austria-Hungary.
Shortly after he took out the Archduke and his wife, Princip was arrested, along with all of his other co-conspirators, except for one, who managed to flee back to Serbia, who was innocent.
Out of the 6 conspirators that were caught, 3 of them were executed and the other 3, Princip included, were sent to the Theresienstadt Prison as they were still young, where the 3 young men all died over the course of WWI from tuberculosis in the prison.
One month later, due to heated discussions over the assassination, nicknamed "The July Crisis," Austria-Hungary's Emperor, Franz Josef II wanted Serbia, who was innocent, and led by King Peter I and Prime Minister Nikola Pasic, to agree to all of their demands in an ultimatum, which sent Serbia, a small kingdom, to ask the Russian Empire, a big and strong country with a massive army, led by weak and strong leaders, Tsar Nicholas II and Prime Minister Ivan Goremykin at that time, to help them.
The Russians asked them to agree to Austria-Hungary's demands, as they didn't want war, but Serbia declined, and on the 28th of July, 1914, Austria-Hungary shelled the Serbian Capital of Belgrade with their ships, as it was only across the Danube, not that far from their territory, and WWI had officially begun, with Russia declaring war on Austria-Hungary and Germany declaring war on France and Russia, and a few months later, after Germany invaded Belgium, the once-great British Empire declared war on the German Empire, while the "Sick Man of Europe", the Ottoman Empire, had declared war on Russia, and Britain and France had declared war on the Ottomans for this, whilst America and Italy, just overlookers at that current moment in time, remained neutral.
It was as if the legacy of Britain, France and the Ottomans as allies during the infamous Crimean War was now all but flipped upside down.
This all lead to trench warfare, major German victories against the Brits, French and Russians early on, with the Russians taking a heavy defeat at Tannenberg, with massively heavy casualties and the suicide of General Alexander Samsonov, who didn't want to report the heavy defeat to the Tsar, never effectively leading to a major recovery of the Russian Army until the Brusilov Offensive 2 years later in 1916.
The Russians, however, were shedding a major victory 3 TIMES at the Osowiec Fortress, where the now famed "Attack of the Dead Men" took place, all against the Germans, and more victories in the Caucasus Region, including the famed Battle of Sarikamish.
But, after major naval battles, Britain still had major control of the seas, but all that changed when the UNTERSEEBOOT (or the U-BOAT) came into play, basically a submarine.
Meanwhile, on the Eastern Front, the Russians asked for more weapons and ammo, as they were starting to run out of those said supplies and the Imperial Russian Army was a huge one, but always took heavy casualties, including the infamous Battle of Tannenberg, where the Imperial German Army were able to practically surround them, annihilate them with artillery and causing general panic and a general rout within the Russian ranks, and many of the Russian Army fled, and the Germans took out about 100,000 Russians, with many more captured, and only 12,000 Germans became casualties, whilst using bayonets, using no ammo practically most of the time, along with the Russians starting to run out of food or any major supply.
This lead the Brits and French to begin the infamous Dardanelles Offensive, otherwise known as the Gallipoli Campaign, calling men from the corners of their Empires, both near and far, from Senegal, British India (or the British Raj), Australia, New Zealand, Cyprus, Malta, Newfoundland, Canada, South Africa, Egypt, French West Africa and their many other territories across the world.
It first failed, due to mines and hidden artillery cannons hidden in the Turkish lands, causing 6 battleships to sink and many others to become damaged. But, on April 25th, 1915, that all changed, with the now famed attack on what is now known as ANZAC Cove, as the French made a diversionary landing on Kum Kale and the RND, the Royal Naval Division made their own diversionary landing on Bulair, and a brave Kiwi, the future Field Marshal Bernard Freyberg, was awarded the DSO (Distinguished Service Order) for swimming onto ANZAC Cove, eventually getting ashore, whilst under heavy Ottoman fire and becoming wet, to light flares.
Now the main Allied attack and assault began, with the British warships being spotted by the Turks from the shoreline and the ANZAC troops on lifeboats being towed to shore... and here is where the story of the failed Doomsday begins...
TO BE CONTINUED.
