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SIR FAN HAMILTON'S DISPATCH ON THE DARDANELLES.
THE GALLIPOLI LANDING.
HERBS OF THE TROOPY, From the Gmoral Commanding the Medi- terranean Expeditionary Force,
MY LORD,
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS,
~~20th May, 1|10.
I have the unor to subunities report on the operation in the Gallipoli Peninsula up to and including the 5th May.
REDISTRIBUTION OF TROOPs. Before doing anything else I had to redis tribute the troops on the tramports to suit the order of their disembarcation. The hulk of the forces at my disposal hud, perforce, been embarked without its living beon possible to pay due attention to the operation upon which I now proposed that they should be launched.
Owing to lack of facilities at Mudros redis tribution in that harbour was out of the
d'Amade did likewise.........
1
outset, yet, taking the operation as it stood there can be no doubt it has contributed greatly to the succom of the main attack, seeing that the plucky stand made at beach had detained heavy columns of the enemy from arriving at the southern end of the peninsula daring what it will be seen was a very touch-and-go struggle.
D
Laud mines The high
In addition,
A company of the Munster Fusiliers led th flank of the bench the ground · rise way, but, short as was the distance, fow of the precipitously, but, in the centre, men over reached the firther side of the beach number of sand dunes afford a more through the hail of bullets which poured down gradual access to the ridge overlooking apon them from both flanks and the front. As the sea. Much time and ingenuity had the second company followed, the extempor- heen employed by the Turks in turning zed pier of lighters gave way in the curent, this landing place into a death trap The end nearest to the shore drifted into Olose to the water's edge a broad wire deep water, and
many men who had escaped entanglement extended the whole length WORK OF SIMPLACABLES" GUNS.
belug
of abot were drowned by the weight of the shore and a supplementary barbod their
swim from the network lay concealed under the surfROG equipment in trying to The harding-place known as X beach con-lighter to the beach. Undaunted workers of the sea in the shallows, To the Secotary of State for War, War question. With your Lordships approval sists of a strip of sand some 200 yards long were still forthcoming, thelighters were again and so mines had been inid.
therefore, I ordered all the transports, except by Syards wide at the foot of a low cliff. The brought into position, and the third company ground overlooking the beach was strong- Offco, London, S.V
those of the Australian Infantry Brigade and
troops to be landed here wore the 1st Royal of the Munster Fusiliers rushed ashore, suffer ly fortified with trenches to which the the details ancamped at Lomos Island, to
natural covered ap MEDITERANEAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, the Egyption ports. On the 24th March Fusiliers, who were to he towel ashore from ing heaviest loss this time from shrapnel as gully, afforded at
HMS. Implacable in two parties, half a bat well us from rifle, 'pom-poms, and machine-
proach. A number of machine-gune aled myself, together with the General Staff, pro
Enlion at a time, together with a beach work gun fire.
were cunningly tucked away into holes ceeded to Alexandrin, where I temained until
WAITING FOR NIGHT.
in the cliff so as to be immune from 7th April, working out the allocation of a Division on Batalion Royal
Naval Division. About G am. H.M.S.
Fora space the attempt to fund was discon-val, bombardment whilst they word troops to transports in minutest detail as a prelude to the forthcoming disembarcation.pble, with a boldness much admired by
the Army, stond quite close in to the beach, tinned When it was resumed the lightors verging their fire on the wire entangle The crest of the hill overlooking In accordance with your Lordship's instrue
On the 1st Aprit the remainder of the firing very rapidly with every gun she could again drifted into deep water, with Brigadier beach was in its turn
commanded tions I left landon on 13th Mirchi with my
bring to bear This seconded, the Royal General Napier, Caplain Costeker, his Brigade General Staffby special train to Marseilles General Headquarters, which had not been fusdicts made good their landing with but Major, and a number of men of the Hampy high ground to the north-west and
south-east, and especially by two strong- sit thenco m H.3.S. Physion to the scene of mobilized when I left England, arrived at the loss. The batalion, then advanced to shire Regiment on board. There was infantry redoubts near Point 138.
in
Both Llac naval operations in the Eastern Mediter Alexandria,
attack the Turkish trenches on the Hilf 14, for them all but to lie down on the lighters, ranean, reaching Tenedos on the 17th March
By the 7th April ny preparations were
situated between Vand W beaches, but were and it was here that General Napier and these redoubts were protected by wire shortly after noon.
sufficiently advanced to tumble me to return heavily counter-attacked and forced to give Captain Costeker were killed. At this time, entanglements about 20 feet broad and Innucciately on arrival I conferred with with my General Staff to Temnos, so as to
ground. Two more battalions of the 8th between 10 and 11 a.m., about 1,000 man har could be approached only by a bard Vice-Adminal de Robeck, Commanding the put the finishing touches to my plan in clase Brigade soon followed them, and by evening left the collier, and of these nearly half hadis-like slope leading up front the Eastern Mediterranean Pleet; General co-ordination with the Vice Admiral Com the troops had established themselves in a bean killed or wounded before they could high ground above W beach or from the d'Amide Contracting the French Corps manding the Eastern Mediteranean Fleet.
entrenched positionextending from half a mile reach the little cover afforded by the sleep, Cape Helles lighthouse. Expéditionaire and Contro Amiral Gue. The covering fores of the 24th Division left round the landing place and as far south as sandy bank at the top of the beach. Further another separate entanglement ran down pratte, in command of the French Squadron. Mudras Harbour on the evening of 23rd April Hill 114. Here they were in touch with the attempts to disembark were now given up from these two redoubts to the edge of
WX 3. OF At this conference past difficulties were for the five beaches, S, V,
V and W explained to me, and the intention to make these, V, W, and X were to be main landings. Lanashire Fusiliers, who had intided on W Had the troops all been in open fonts but the cliff near the lighthouse, making in
beach Brigadier-fieneral Marshall, con- few of them would have lived to tell the tale tercommunication between a fresh attack on the morrow was announced the landings at Sand V being mido mainly tumanding the 67th Brigade, had been wound- But, most fortunately, the collier was so beaches impossible until these redoubte The amphibious battle between warships and protect the flanks, to diseminate the forces eri during the day's fighting, but continued constructed as to afford tally elicient had been captured.
protection to the men who were still on board, So strong, in fact, were fl defences of in command of the brigade. laud fortress took place next day, the 18th of the enemy, and to interrupt the arrival of
and, so long as they mate no attempt to W beach that the Turks may well have of March. I witnessed these stupendous his reinforcements. The landings at S and were to take place at dawn, whilst it was erents, and thereupon cabled your Lordship
A TORNADO. OF FIRE.
land, they suffered comparatively little less, considered them impregnable, and it is Throughout the remainder of the day there my firm conviction that no finer feat of my reluctant deduction that the cooperation planned int the first troops for V, W, and X
ever been achieved by the of the whole of the force under my command beaches should reach the shore simultaneously
The landing on bench was planted to was practically no change in the position of arms has
affairs. The situation was probably ved British soldier or any other soldier- would be required to enable the Fleet effee at 5:30 am after half an hour's bombardment take place on the following lines: tively to one the Dardanelles.
from the Fleet
As soon as the enemy's defences had been by the machine guns on the River Clyde, than the storming of the trenches from By that time I had already carried out af The transports conveying the covering
Dublinkusiliers were to be towed the memy's fire and in preventing any at The landing at W had been entrusted to preliminary reconnaissance of the north force aurited off Fonedos on the morning of poses of the Dublin Fusiliers were to es com which did valuable service in keeping down open bouts on the morning of Soth, frunz western he of the Gallipoli Peninsula, the 24th, and during the afternoon the troops ashore. They were to be closely followed by rempt on their part to launch counter the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers from its isthmus where it is spanned by the were transferred to the warships and fleet-the collier Hever Clyde (Commander Unwin attack. One half-company of the Dublin (Major Bishop), and it was to the com Bulair fortiory lines, to Cape Helles, at its sweepers in which they were to approach T..), carrying between decks the balance of Fusiliers, which had been landed at a camber plete Inck of the senses of danger of extremnest point. From Balir this singular the shore. About midnight these ships, each the Dublin Fusiliers, the Munster Fusiliers, just east of Sedd-el-Bahr village, was unable fear of this daring battalion, that feature runs in a south-westerly direction for towing a number of cutters and other small hall a battalion of the Hampshire Regimcut, to work its way across to V beach, and by owed our astonishing success.
miles, attaining near its centren breadth boats, silently slipped their cables and escorted the West Riding Field Company, and other mid-day had only twenty-five men left. It case of the landing at X. the dissem of 12 miles. The northern coast of the nor by the 3rd Squadron of the costenmed slow details.
was proposed to divert to Y reach that part barcation had been delayed for half an thern half of the promontory slopes lowly towards the final renderous at tape The Biver Olyde had been specially preof the main body which had een intended hour, but at 8 a.m. the whole battalion wards steeply to the Gulf of eros, in a chain Helles. The rendezvous was reached just be paid for the rapid disembarcation of her to land on V beach; but this would have approached the shore together, towed by of hills, which extend as far as Cape Sulva fore dawnon the 25th. The morning was also complement, and large openings for the exit involved considerable delay owing to the eight picket boats in Hine abreast, each The precipious full of the hills precludes lutely still; there was no sign of life on the of the troops had been cut in her sides, giving distance, and the main body was diverted to picket bout pulling four ship's cutters, landing, except at a few narrow gullies, for shore; a thin veil of mist hug motionless over on to a wide gangplank by which the men beach where the Lancashire Fusiliers As soon as shallow water, was ruched. the tows wero cast off and the boats were too restrictal for any serious military move the prommtory; the surface of the sea was as could pass rapidly into lighters which she had already effected a landing.
Late in the afternoon part of the Worcest once rowed to the shore. The southern half of the peninsul smooth as glass. The four battleships and four had in tow, As spot as the first tows had IDents. is shaped like a badly-worn boot. The ankle cruisers which formed the rd Squadron at reached land the River Clyde was to be ran lics between Gaba Tepe and Kalkmaz Dagb: once took up the positions that had been staight ashore. Her lighters were to be beneath the heel lie the cluster of fortsat allotted to them, and at 5 am, it
the beach, and by this means Kilid Bubr whilst the tee is that promontory light enough to fire, a violent bombardment placed in position lo form a gangway between five miles in width, stretching from Tekks of the enemy's defences was begun, Mean was hoped that 2,000 men could be thrown Burnu to Seld-el-Balır.
while the troops were being rapidly trais ashore with the utmost rapidity. Further, ferred to the small boats in which they were to assist in covering the harding, a battery to be towed ashore. Not a move on the part of machine guns, protected by sandbags, had of the onery except for stalls thrown from been mounted in her bows. the Asiatic side of the Straits the guns of the Fleet remained unanswered.
THREE NATURAL FÖRTRESSES. The this dominating features in the southern setion seemed to me to be:-
(1) Saribair Mountain, maning up in a succession of almost perpendicular escarp mrats to 970 feet. The whole meuntain seemed to be a network of ravines and covered with thick jungle
(2) Kild Bahr plateau, which rises, a natural fortification artificially fortified, to height of 700 feet to cover the forts of the Narrows from an attack from the
Aegean.
of
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As in the
Three.com-
paies headed for the beach and a con- all ledge of rock immediately under the eliff at Tekke Burnu.
any on the left of the line made for al Brigade-General Hare, commanding the 68th Brigade. accompanied this latter party which
tershire Regiment and the Lancashire Fusiliers worked across the high ground the situation by taking the defenders of from W. beach, and seemed likely to relieve beach in flank. The pressure on their own front, however, and the numerous barbed- wirtentanglementswhich intervened, checker this advance, and at nightfall the Turkish ped the cross fire brought to brar garrison still hold their ground. Just before pou the beach and was also in a better dark some small parties of our men inade position than the rest of the battalion to their way along the shore to the outer turn the wire entanglements. walls of the Old Fort, and when night had fallen the remainder of the infantry While the troops were approaching from the collier were landed. A good foree shore no shot had been red ching the
as to position, and the fire of the enemy lead swept over the battalion. Gallantly troops ware at such a cruel disadvantage boat touched the ground a hurricane of was still so accurato in the bright moon led by their officers, the Fusiliers light, that all attempts to clear the fort buried themselves stories literally and the outskirts of the village during the from right, left, and centre, commenced
LANCASHIRE HEROISH.
THE FIRST LANDING. The detachment detailed for S beach (Eski Hissarlik Point) consisted of the 2nd South stands Sedd-el-Bahr village and that which is was now available for attack, but our enemy's trenches, but as soon as the first
Wales Borderers (less one company) ander Lieut.-Colonel Cassou. Their landing was delayed by the current, but by 7.30 am. it had been successfully effected at the cost of some 60 casualties, and Licut-Colonel Cusson
The remainder of the covering force de tailed for this beach was then to follow in tows from the attendant battleships.
beach is situated immediately to the west Sedd-el-Babr. Between the bluff on which
very regular amphitheatre of three or four crowned by No. 1 Fort the ground forms a hundred yards radius. The slopes down to the beach are slightly consave, so that the whole within the limits of this natural
of a defender. The returned to the collier under cover of dark
A peculiarity to be noted us regards this advance on the 27th brought him into touch and 330 vds. lung, backed aloog almost then the 26th was the same as it had been on of the warships, which had now closed to Cape Helles the ground is hollowed out the King's Own Scottish Borderers and the about 4 feet high, where the ground falls the previous lay, except that the troops first right in to the shore, and helped by the
landed were becoming very exhausted,
(3) Aci Babi, a hill 60 feet in height was able to establish bis small force on the grassy terracesrige gently night failed one after the other. The woande hacking their way through the wire. A dominating at long field gun range what high ground near De Tets Battery. Here ton height of a hundred feet above the shore, who were able to do so without STERNS Jong line of men was at once clown down
enn be swept by the fire of have described as being the toe of the he maintained himself until the general beach itsell is a sandy strip some 10 yds. wide nes; but otherwise the situation at day break the but the remainder were not to be denied. Covered by the fire peninsukr last southern sector is that from Achi Babi with the main body. like a spoon, presenting only its outer edges to direct fire from the sea. The inside of the spoon appears to be open and undulating but actually it is full of spurs, nallahs, a confused under features.
Generally speaking the cast is precipitous, and good landing places are few dust south
The landing on beach was entrusted to whole of its extent by a low sly escarpment The slight Plymouth (Marine) Battalion, Royal Navally sheer down to the beach. Division, specially attached to the 4th shelter afforded by this escarpment played na Division for this task. the wliole under the small part in the operations of the succeeding
thirty-two hours." command of Lieut. Colonel Kee. The beach at this point consisted merely of a narrow strip of sand at the foot of a crumbling scrub covered cliff some 200 feet high immedi
guns,
THE OBSTACLES ON SHORE
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About 9.30am. more infantry had. begun to disembark, and two hours later a junction was effected on Hill 114 with the troops who had landed on X beach."
On the right, owing to the strength of the redoubt on Hill 138, little progress cauld be made. The small party of
Twenty-four hours after the diseabaren.dunking fire of the company on the tion began there were ashore on V beach the extreme left, they broke through the en- survivors of the Dublin and Munster Fusi tanglements and collected under the cliffs. liers and of two companies of the Hamp either side of the beach. shire Regiment. The Brigadier and his companies were rapidly reformed, and Brigade-Major had been killed; Lieut-Colt forth to storm the enemy's entrench- Carrington Smith, commanding the Hampments wherever they could find them, At the south-eastern extremnity of the shire Regiment, had been killed and the battalion moved up towards Hill the
In making these attacks the bulk of of Tekke Barau is a small sandy bay (W), andiately to the west of Arithis
The Adjutant half a nic north of it is another small break number of small gullies nuing down the beach, between the shore and the village, adjutant had been wounded.
small party worked in the cliff (X). Two mile farther up the face of the cliff facilitated the climb to the stands the old fort of Sedd-et-Tahr, a battered of the Munster Fauliers was wounded, and whilst a coast the mouth of a stream indents these summit, and so impracticable had these pre rain with wide breaches in its walls and the great majority of the senior officers were towards the trenches on the Cape Helles
The remnant of side of the landing place. same cliff(Y 2), and yet another mile and aripices appeared to the Turks that no stepsonds of fallen musoury within and around either wounded or killed,
Several land mines were exploded by half up a scrub-covered gully looked as it had been taken to defend them. it On the ridge to the north, overlooking thalmaling-party still crouched on the beach.
Very active infantry might be able to scramble up different would it have been had we, the amphitheatre, stands a ruined barrack beneath the shelter of the sandy escarpment the Turks during the advance, but the
as was at one time intended, taken Yoth of those buildings, as well as No. 1 which had saved so many lives. With them determination of the troops was in it on to lights not altogether dissimilar to
By 10 am, thice lines of those of Abraham, by Quele (1) Inside Sedd for this landling. These a large force of art, had beeu long bonbarded by the Fleet, were two officers of my General Staff way affected.
and hustle trenches were in our hands, ank el-Bahar is a sandy beach (V), about 300 ya funtry by machine and Hotchkiss |
entrenched up to their necks, and of action but their crumbled walls and the Lieutenant-Colonel Willians. These two our hold on the beach was assurd.
and the guns of the forts had been put out Lieutenant-Colonel Doughty-Wylie across, facing a sun-circle of steeply-rising ground, asthe flat bottom ofa half-saucer faces were awaiting an attempt which could hardly gained outskirts of the village afforded cover officers, who had inned from the Itiver the rim, a rim flanked on one side by an old have made good its fooling. But at Y both for riflemen, while from the terraced slopes Clyde, had been striving, with conspicuous castle, on the other by a modern fort. By battalions were able in the first instance to already described the defenders were able contempt for danger, to keep all their Eski Higurlik, on the cast of Morto Bay (S), establish themselves on the heights, reserves to command the open beach, as a stage is comrades in good heart during this day and was another small bench, which was, however, of food, water, and ammunition were hauled overlooked from the balconies of a theatre night of ceaseless imminent peril. dominated by the big guns from Asia. Tunup to the top of the cliff, and, in accordance on the very margin of the bench a strong HOW COL DOUGHTY-WYLIE DIED ing northwards again, there are two good with the plan of operations, an endeavour barbed wire entanglement, made of heavier
Now that it was daylight once more, Lancashire Fusiliers which had advanced landing places on either side of Gala Tope. was ineriately made to gain touch with the metal and longer barbs than I have ever scen Farther to the north of that promontory the troops leading at X beach. Unfortunately, the dsewhere, ran right across from the old fort Lieutenant-Colonels Doughty-Wylie and in this direction succeeded in reaching bench was supposed to be dangerous and enemy strong detachment from Interpos of Sedd-el-Bahr to the foot of the north-Williams set to work to organize the edge of the wire entanglements, bu dithenit. In most of the landing places the ed, our troops landing at X were fally occupied western headland. Two-thirds of the way attack on the hill above the beach. Any were not strong enough to do more, and was here that Major Frankland, tronches and lines of wire entanglements are in attacking the Turks immediately to their up the ridgo a second and even stronger sollier who has endeavoured to pulit plainly visible from ou heard ship. What front, and the attempt to join hands was not entanglement crossed the amphitheatre, scattered units together after they have Brigade Major of the 86th Infantry been dominated for many consecutiva Brigade, who had gone forward to make passing in front of the old barrack and end- seemed tobe gun emplacements and infantry parsevered with. redoubts could also be made out through a Later in the day u large force of Turksing in the outskirts of the village. A third hours by close and continuous fire will a personal reconuissance, was unfortu
Brigade General Hare were seen to be advancing upon the cliffs wansverse entanglencut, joining these two, be able to take the measure of their pately killed. telescops but of the full extent of these de
the hill near the eastern end of the dimentties. Fortunately, General Hunt had been wounded earlier in the day, and fences and of the forces available to man above 1 beach from from the direction of a qu then there was no possibility of judging Kaithin, and Colonel Kes was aliged to beach, and almost at right-angles to iter Western had arranged with Rear Colonel Woolly Dud, General Sind wit except by practical test.
entrench. From this tiny onward hie sutall Above the upper entanglement the ground Adtuiral Wemyss about this same time Division, was now sent ashore to take Altogether the result of this and subsequent force was subjected to strong and repeated was suured with the enemy's trenches, in for a heavy bombardment to be opened command at W beach and organize reconnisances was to convince me that noth-attacks, supported by field artillery, and of which four pou-poms were emplaced in by the ships upon the Old Fort. Sed further advance.
At 2 pm, after the ground war Hill ing but thorough and systematic scheme for owing to the configuration of the ground, others were dummy pom-poms to draw fire, el Bahr Village, the Old Castle worth of flinging the whole of the troops under my comwhich bore drops inland from the edge of while the debris of the shattered buildings on the village, and on the ground leading up 38 had been subjected to a heavy bon- Under cover of this bardment, the Worcester Regiment ad- mand very rapidly achore could be exported the cliff, the guns of the supporting ships either flank afforded over and concealment from the beach. to meet with success: whereas on the other could reader him little assistance. Through for a number of machine guns, which brought bubardment, and led by Lieutenant vanced to the assault,
Several men of hard, a tentative or piecemeal programine out the afternoon and all through the night cross-fire to bear on the ground already Colonel Doughty, Wylie, and Captain this battalion rushed foward with great was bound to lend to clisaster. The landing the Turks rande assault after assault upun swept by rifle this from the ridge.
passages through the of an army upon the theatre of operation I the British line. They throw bombs into the
As often happens fa war, the actual course Walford, Brigads Major R.A., the troops spirit to cut have described a theatre strongly garrison- trenches, and, favoured by darkness, actually of events did not quite correspond with the gained a footing in the village, bu 18 entanglement; some were killed others. 3. They encountered a minst stubborn persevered, and by 4 pm, the hill and ed throughout, and prepared for any such lod a pony with a machine gun on its back intentions of the Commander opposition and suffered heavy losse redoubt were captured. attempt-involved difficulties for which no over the defences and was proceeding to yde came into position off Sedd-dl-Bahr in
from the fire of well-concealed riflemen An attempt was now mads to join precedent was forthcoming in military bis-come into action in the middle of our posiadvance of the lous, and, just as the loft and machine guns. Undeterred by the hands with the troops on V beach, who tory except possibly in the sinister legendis tiob when they were bayonoted.
reached the shore, Coramander Unwin beach- of Xerxes
The beaches were either so well The British repeatedly counter charged el his ship also. Whilst the boats and the resistance, and supported by the naval could make no headway at all against the defended by works and guns or else with the bayonet, and always drove off the collier were approaching the landing place. Sunfire, they pushed forward, and soon domiuating defences of the enemy restricted by nature that it did not seem enemy for the moment, but the Turks were the Turks made no sign.. Up to the very after midday they penetrated to the help them out the seth Brigade pushed ling northern edge of the village, whence the forward in an easterly direction along possible, even by two or three simultaneous in a vast superiority and fresh troops took last moment it appeared as if the uading were in a position to attack the Old the cliff. There is a limit, however, to landings, to pass the troops ashore quickly the place of those who temporarily fell back was to be unopposed, Bat the moment the
During this the storming of barbed wire entangle enough to enable ther
More of these barred to maintain Colonel Koe(since died of woods) had become first boat touchel bottom the storm hroke Castle and Hill 141. themselves against the rapid concen- a casualty early in the day, the num
A tornado of five swept over the beach, the advance Captain Walford was killed mont tration and counter-attack which the ber of clicers and area, kilix and wounded incoming boats, and the collier. The Dublin Lieutenant-Colonel Doughty-Wylie had Again the heroic wire-cutters the way.
bound enemy was
in such case to during the incessant fighting was very heavy Fusiliers and the naval boats crews suffered most gallantly led the attack all the way Through glasses they could be atternpt. It became necessary, therefore, By 7 am on the 20th only about half of the xceedingly beny losses while still in the up from the beach through the west side quietly supping away under a hellish not only to land simultaneously at as many Kings Own Scottish Borderers remained to boats.
Those who succeeded in landing and of the village, under a galling fire. And fire, as if they were pruning a vineyard. points
ats as possible, but to threaten to land at man the entrenchment axle for four times in crossing the strip of sand managed to now when, owing to largely to his own Again some of them fell. The fire pour- other pants as well. The first of these their number. These brace fellows were also gain some cover when they reached the inspiring example and intrepid courage is out of No. 1 fort grew hotter and necessities involved another unavoidable if lutely worn out wish continuous fighting it ow escarpment on the further side. None the position had almost been gained, hotter, until the troops, now thoroughly awkward contingency, the separation by was doubtful if reinforcements could reach of the hoats, however, were able to get off was killed while leading the last assault exhausted by a sleepness night and by
and they and their crews were de But the attack was pushed forward with the long day's fighting under a hot su eonsiderable intervals of the forée..
them in time, and order wore issued furd upon the beach.
aut wavering, and, fighting their way had to rest on their laurels for a while The weather was also bound to play a vital them to be re embarked Thanks to H.M.S.
When night fell, the British position in part in my landing. Had it been British Goliath, Dublin, Amethyst, and apphire, Now came the moment for the River acres the open with great dash, the weather there would have been no alteraz thanks, also to the dewtion of small Clyde to pour forth her living freight; but troups gained the enmmit and occupied front of W beach extended from just east tive but instantly to give up the adventure. rearguard of the King's Own Scottish Bor-grievous delay was caused bere by the diff the Old Castle and Hill 141 before of Cape Helles lighthouse, through Hill 138, to Hill 114. Practienily every men To land two or three thousand men, and then derers, which kept off the enemy from ouity of placing the lighters in position be
had to be thrown into the trenches to to have to break off and leave them exposed lining the cliff, the re-embarcation of the ween the ship and the shore. A strong
THE STORMING OF BEACH W.
hold this line, and the only available for a week to the attacks of 34,000 regular whole of the troops, together with the current hilered the work and the enemy'
W beach consist of a strip of deep, reserves on this part of our front wen troops, with a hundred guns at their back, wounded, stores, and ammunition, was safely fire was so intense that almost every man was not in eventuality to blightly envisaged. accomplished, and both battalions were engaged upon it was immediately shot. powdery sand some 350 yards. long and the 2nd London Field Company 1.E. and Whatever happened the weather must always brought round the southern end of the pen. Owing, however, to the splendidl gallantry of fra 15 to 40 yards wide, situated in a platoon of the Ausch Battalion, which remain an incalculable factor, but at least by insular Deplorable as the heavy losses had the naval working party, the lighters were diately south of Tekke Burnu, where had been landed az a beach working delay, dl the end of April we had a far heen, and unfortunate is was the tactical eventually placed in position, and then the cast gully running devs to the sex party.
(Continud on page 7.) chance of several days of wonsecutive oslo. failure to take good so much ground at the disembarcation began.
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epens a break in the cliffs. On either.
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