 However , the main assault aimed at the peaks of Chunuk Bair and Hill 971 was less successful . The force striking for the nearer peak of Chunuk Bair comprised the New Zealand Infantry Brigade . It came within 500 metres ( 1 @,@ 600 ft ) of the peak by dawn on 7 August but was not able to seize the summit until the following morning . This delay had fatal consequences for another supporting attack on the morning of 7 August , that of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the Nek which was to coincide with the New Zealanders attacking back down from Chunuk Bair against the rear of the Turkish defences . The New Zealanders held out on Chunuk Bair for two days before relief was provided by two New Army battalions from the Wiltshire and Loyal North Lancashire Regiments . A massive Turkish counter @-@ attack , led in person by Mustafa Kemal , swept these two battalions from the heights . Meanwhile , the landing at Suvla Bay was only lightly opposed but the British commander , Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stopford , had so diluted his early objectives that little more than the beach was seized . Again the Turks were able to win the race for the high ground of the Anafarta Hills thereby rendering the Suvla front another case of static trench warfare . 
