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Being a qualified land surveyor, and experienced in the use and construction of maps, and the knowledge of country, I was well able to keep noter of our post- tions Tul was the officer mentioned in Over nine years have passed since the your letter who took the patrol up Tekke end of the Gallipoli campaign, yet there fepe. In fact I still have your signs! is still dispute as to many of the actual corporal's field glasses which I took from moves made by units in certain of the his while on the hill, my own being

smushed by a ride ballet whilst usi more important actions, says The Times theat on this patrol My report disagrees This obscurity was in the main due to with your letter in a few minor details- the nature of the country and to the for instance, while on Scimitar Hill the relative inadequacy of the maps in use, sth West Yorks were on our left, as 1 The ferrain was broken by ravines and

was actually speaking with their officers! gullies running in every direction, and an their own right flank, but they were! peints which were landmarks from a dis- withdrawn before us, Ged knows why. tance could not readily be identified at Again, while you say Tekke Tepe vas It was therefor possible not occupied, it was held very lightly by for detachments isolated in action to Sight patrols. We ran into two of them before for hours without being quite certain a reaching the top: out of as we bagged to their actual position. This was parti- two Turks, the other escaped us. There cularly the case in the Suvla aren imme-were also three short lengths of partially diately after the landing on August 6th- 7th, 1015, and there is still much to be trenches unoccupied, while we were

KOBE MOJI there, but showing signs of most recent explained in regard to the details of the occupation. Further, you say that the ensuing operations, The Turks were Turks came in behind D Company and taken by surprise, and had made little the rest of the battalion fought in the preparation for détence over much of the trench. This is not quite right. We had territory threatened by the British at-advanced fully 1,500 yards (and I way tacking force. The result of the opera tions is known to the world, but there has always been much doubt as to the murging between the actual failure and possible sucCESS.

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General Sir Ian Hamilton, the G.Ö.c. Mediterranean Expeditionary Feee, bas always held that the key to the position was Tekke Tepe, a hill about 800 feet in in the great fundamental point, that is, that Tekke Tepe should have height, in the centre of a series of ridges been, taken on the evening of August 8th.. disposed roughly in the shape of a horse That this could and would have been shoe and enclosing Suvla Bay, He be done had there not been a lamentable lieved that during the operation British failure of the Staft I think gues unques- troops had actually reached the summit tinned by those of us who had nu accu- of the hill on August 9th, and that. had rate knowledge of the conditions; it was proper support been given, victory was the loss of the Gallipoli Campaign. in sight.

but, until 123, he and no definite

I am even of the opimon, that, had evidence in confirmation of this belief the Stal work not been w cutten, and In October, 1993, he received a letter had the attack in the early morning of from Mr. Johd Still, a tea planter in August 9th been by three battalions it. Ceyben, who had been adjutant of the l of us alone, it might have beep 6th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, sucessful. If you remember, the attack aunt of the and Brigade, during the was to have been a brigade affair, three Savle operation, giving details of his battalions in attack with one in support. own experiences on Tekka Tepe.

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My. Still said that his battalion had held a position on. Scimitar Hili (about) 3.000 yards to the south-west of Tekke I think all of K.'s Army who took part Tepey throughout August 8th, that on its in this landing and the following few days left there was only a weak half company felt it intensely that they were blamed! of the West Yorkshire Regiment, and by the Staff for the failure on the grounds liat, on the immediate right, a sergeant of being green troops. Compared with and two men of another regiment pro-later experiences in France, the 11th and vided the only support. Sir lan's order 10th Divisions fought as well as any for the 2nd Brigade to attack Tekke troops ever did be they Regulars or other renched the troops on wise, al-I am sure that those of us who Tepe never Scimitar Hill, although they were in con had the honour to belong to either 11th stant communication with Brigade Head or 10th Divisions feel grateful to you for quarters, hut during the day an officer coming out plainly and placing the blamic and signaller of the East Yorks recon- | where it so justly belongs.-Yours very

noitred Tekke Tepe and found it to be truly. unogenpied. Sir Ian's order, according to Mr. Still, reached the 6th Battalion, East Yorks, alone and" at dawn August 9th, many hours after its issue and Star the battalion had retired from Scimitar Hill-a retirement ordered be. cause the brigade had been unable to pro- vide support and not because of Sir Ian's Tekke Tepe instructions. On receipt of The annual report, of Marconi's Wire- the order, Colonel Moore, commanding less Telegraph Company. Ltd., states that the East Yorks, with Mr. Still and the the directors are confident that the future remnants of D Company, accompanied development of long-distance wireless by Major Brunner, R.E, set out for telegraphy will be mainly along the lines Tekke Tepe, and 30 reached the summit. of Senator Marconi's directional short- They were cut off by the advancing wave system. They inform the share- Turks, and the survivors, five in number rived at with the British Government and holders that agreements, have been ar including Mr. Still, were captured. believed that if the orders to advance had with the Goverments of India, Australia, been transmitted to the entire brigade Canada, and South Africa for the installa.

"hear" M/S. and in time, victory would have attended tion and untration of the

of wireless telegraphy. The 1/9. system the Britia eforts.

schere of an Empire chain of wireless Mr. Still wrote again to Sirlan Hamil stations is now within sight of early com con early last month enclosing a copy of pletion. In addition to the programme of a letter he had recently received from Empire stations, the company has applied Mr. . T. Underhill, now living in Van-to the Post Office for n general ceneni courer, B.C who was formerly an officer to erect and work stations in Great in the East Yorkabire Regiment and was Britain for communication with the Con- one of the patrol which reconnoitred tinent and foreign countries outside Tekke Tepe on August 8th. "In his cover Europe. Termi are now being discussed ing letter Mr. Still says:-

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I claimed to be, in all prob- ability, the only man left.who could satisfy history that Tekke Tepe was ex- plored on August 8th, 1915, and found empty, 1 thought everybody else was dead. My letter was reprinted in every part of the Empire, and brought me, and you, a very great many letters which con- firmed various small points: but as to the main contentions I had to stand alone, and did so. But there was all the time a man alive who could support me absolutely; and at last my letter has reached him, and he has written to me in full!

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It had escaped my memory that the hil was reconnoitred by two officers, for I only remembered one, and he was kill- ed the next day. But there were two, and the survivor has sent me his ac-

What appear to count. particularly valuable in this letter is the fact that it contradicts me go a few minor matters, this renders collusion the more unlikely, and though I know! you would never think it me, yet Gallipoli is still a battle ground, and others might. I remember Underhill very well How na most capable

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DAE SIRA friend of mine has just sent me a clipping from" The Times, which is a letter of yours dealing with the movements of our old Battalion after landing at Suvia Bay. I am very glad to see that it has been made public, as it bears out n written" report I gave to Major Cooper (Second in Command) of our doings and positions, particularly on August 8th. Major Cooper asked me for it at the time of the inquiry into the failors at Suvla Bay, as our Divisional Commander, General Hammersley," waa one of these sent home.

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