Street, mounted a futile and bloody series of attacks that in the end gained a small patch of ground known as "The Vineyard".

His replacement, Lieutenant General Francis Davies, arrived in early August but had not yet assumed command of the corps when a series of diversions were due to be launched from Anzac and Helles to divert Ottoman attention from the planned landing at Suvla and the break out from Anzac.

Lieutenant (temporary Captain) William Thomas Forshaw of the 1/9th Battalion Manchester Regiment, Territorial Force,[8] of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, and Private David Ross Lauder of the 1/4th Royal Scots Fusiliers, Territorial Force,[9] of the 52nd (Lowland) Division.

[4] As for the other diversion at Lone Pine, the attack failed to fulfill its goal of tying down the Ottoman reinforcements away from the main offensive.

As early as the morning of 7 August, regiments were being dispatched from Helles to the main front in the Sari Bair range.