From the start it all went wrong. At 4.30 am the mine failed to explode but, as ordered, the first line of Queenslanders, led by Major Logan, leapt from their trenches and an opened tunnel to rush the Turkish lines. Not surprisingly, they emerged into a wall of lead, as rifle and machine gun fire from the perfectly prepared Turks cut them down almost to a man. The Australian machine guns at Quinn’s Post tried their best to suppress this fire, but to no effect. Major Logan was killed before he had gone more than five metres, and Lieutenant Burge was toppled before he had gone ten. With only one exception, every man in this wave became a casualty.

Corporal Percy Gooch (2/LHR) was a lucky survivor of the assault:

Lieutenant Burge was in our troop, and on the morning of August 7th, at 4 o’clock, the remainder of our line attacked, but I don’t know how they got on. Our troop had to lead the way for our squadron, and we were split into four parties of seven. When the time came to charge we found that it was not possible to get more than eight men out of the trench at a time, so Sergeant Simpkins and I led the way, with three men each, Lieutenant Burge coming with us. Charlie Mowbray immediately followed with three others, and that is all of our troops who left the trench. We were all hit except two, one who was getting out and jumped back in again, and the other who was getting out and had to pull Sergeant Simpkins (who had been shot in the throat) into the trench again. Some of us arrived at the enemy’s first trench, but could not get in owing to the bomb-proof cover, and the Turks were firing at us through chinks in the cover. Immediately behind this trench it was literally swarming with Turks, who were throwing bombs at us. On our crowd being ordered back to the trenches, there was a regular scramble back, leaving one of my party and myself to back Lieutenant Burge up. We dropped on our stomachs and wriggled behind an uprooted stump, but Lieutenant Burge and the other chap were hit and killed almost immediately. I fired until my magazine clogged, and then I couldn’t do anything but lie still. I was in loose earth, and wriggled a bit of a hole for my body, but eventually reached the trench wounded.15

Tom Logan and Joe Burge are buried in Quinn’s Post CWGC Cemetery.

The difference between the attack here and The Nek was that 2/LHR’s commander, Major George Bourne, ordered the attack to stop as soon as he witnessed the complete failure of the first wave; within a minute this ill-fated attack was over.