The Battalion That Vanished at Gallipoli | The Mystery of the Norfolks

Content note: This episode describes wartime deaths. Nothing graphic is shown. On 12 August 1915 a British battalion advanced across the Anafarta plain at Gallipoli. Its commander wrote that nothing more was ever seen or heard of them. Fifty years later, veterans claimed they had marched into a cloud. This file follows the records: the attack, the search, the graves, and how a legend was born. FILE 001 · Suvla Bay, Gallipoli · 12 August 1915 Chapters: 0:00 Cold Open 0:59 The File 2:51 The King's Men 5:23 Suvla Bay 8:21 The Afternoon of the Twelfth 11:35 Missing 14:11 The Search 17:03 The Cloud 19:28 How the Story Grew 21:32 Possible Explanations 27:08 What Remains What is documented and what is claimed: The attack of 12 August 1915, the losses, the 1919 discovery of the remains and the reburials are documented. The 'cloud' account dates from 1965, fifty years after the event, and contradicts the records in date, unit and place. Sources & further reading: General Sir Ian Hamilton, Third Gallipoli Despatch, 11 December 1915, Third Supplement to The London Gazette, 6 January 1916 C. F. Aspinall-Oglander, Military Operations: Gallipoli, Vol. II (official history), Heinemann, 1932 Nigel McCrery, The Vanished Battalion, Simon & Schuster, 1992 (republished as All the King's Men) Ian McGibbon, 'A Day to Remember: The Missing Regiment', NZ Skeptics, 1999 Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Azmak Cemetery, Suvla Historic UK, '5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment – The True Story' Unexplained Documentaries: unexplained cases, vanishings and hidden history, told from the records. About this video: AI-generated narration and AI-assisted illustrations. Illustrations are artistic reconstructions, not photographs of the events. Script researched and edited by the channel. #unexplained #mystery #documentary #gallipoli #ww1 vanished battalion, gallipoli mystery, sandringham company, norfolk regiment, suvla bay, 1915, unexplained disappearances, ww1 mystery, mystery documentary, unexplained documentaries