page_title: Otago Infantry Regiment (NZEF)
section_title: The landing
hierarchical_section_title: Otago Infantry Regiment (NZEF) / Gallipoli / The landing
caption_attribution_description: Map of the Anzac battlefield at en:Gallipoli depicting the main plateaus and ridges. Traced from marginal map in Ch.11, Vol. I "The Story of Anzac" of the en:Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-18 by en:C.E.W. Bean.
context_page_description: The Otago Infantry Regiment was a military unit that served within the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) in World War I during the Gallipoli Campaign and on the Western Front. This Regiment and the Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment were composed mostly of men from Otago and Southland. The Otago Infantry Regiment represented the continuation of the Dunedin and Invercargill Militia Battalions formed in 1860.
context_section_description: On 25 April between 2:30 and 4 p.m. the Otago Battalion troops disembarked from their boats at Gallipoli. This was after a significant gap in the landings from the rest of the invasion which had occurred before 10 a.m. that morning. The Battalion was ordered first to cover the left flank and then to Plugge's Plateau where initial progress from the morning's landings had become bogged down. The Battalion was disorganized and was not incorporated into the broken front line as a single unit. Heavy fighting occurred until early the next morning. During this time several Ottoman counterattacks occurred but the Regiment held its ground, despite being without effective artillery support.
  The next morning brought a considerable Ottoman artillery barrage, which could now be returned by two New Zealand guns and supporting navel vessels. The 10th Company of the Battalion was sent to Steel's Post for two days of heavy fighting to aid the Australians already there. The evening of the second day was relatively quiet along the rest of the Otago Battalion line. The invasion force had a secure beachhead, but had failed to reach their planned targets or capture the heights around the landing site.
caption: Names given to plateaus and ridges by Australian and New Zealand soldiers.
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