The battalion suffered heavy losses in action at Gallipoli on 12 August 1915 and a myth grew up

later that the unit had advanced into a mist and simply disappeared. The film dramatizes these
events and the origins of the myth back home, in the process following an investigator sent after
the war on behalf of the Royal Family to find the truth about the company's fate. As represented
in the film, after becoming separated from other British troops and suffering heavy losses the
remnants of the former Sandringham Company were taken prisoner by Ottoman soldiers and
then massacred. One survivor wakes in a German military hospital and is told by a doctor that
he was fortunate to have been found by German troops accompanying the Turkish forces.

The scene in which prisoners are killed as they try to surrender was criticized by both the
Turkish Ambassador in London, and by a grandson of the central character, Captain Frank
Beck, as being unsupported by evidence.

One of the strangest legends of the First World War is that of the disappearance of the
Sandringham Company in action in Gallipoli in 1915. The land agent at Sandringham House -
the Norfolk estate of George V - creates a superb fighting force. However, led into battle against
the Turks in Gallipoli, they are never to be seen again