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Summary of Events and Information
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Remarks and references to Appendices
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APRIL 1915 |
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| TENEDOS |
24th. |
4am |
Arrived TENEDOS. waited for weather. |
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6pm |
Transferred to H.M.S. EURYALUS. Strength
of Batt[alio]n landing 25 officers & 918 other ranks. |
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| GALLIPOLI PENINSULA |
25th. |
4am |
Transferred to ships boats & rowed
to landing place on beach between C. HELLES & TEKKE BURNU |
App.1X
orders for landing. |
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5.30am |
Landed under Heavy fire from machine guns
& rifles from cliffs. Heavy casualties. |
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9am |
Several men hit in boats & in water
before getting ashore. Barbed wire entanglement near water's edge. |
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9am |
In possession of 114 hill & adjacent
redoubts. Dispiritions reported to B.G.C. |
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10am |
ESSEX Regt. reinforced on our right. Asked
for information re Roy. Muns. Fus. landing.
C Co[mpan]y. I.L.F. in Redoubt North of hill 114. D Coy. I.L.F. just
South of hill 114. |
All references are to squared map issued
to all troops. MAP of GALLIPOLI Sheet I |
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3.45pm |
Ordered to make good spur 200 c2 2.N. keeping
connection with troops on hill 138. |
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5pm |
C Coy I.L.F. connected up with 2. Royal
Fus. & entrenched on their right. D. Coy. I.L.F. on right of C
Coy, on a line 600 yards North of hill 114.
Heavy firing all night on our left flank. |
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26th |
6am |
Firing continued all morning. Collected
A & B Coys who had gone to hill 138 in accordance with orders
issued by B[riga]de. Reorganised Battalion. Strength 15 officers &
411 other ranks. |
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5pm |
Position
Turks retired towards ACHI BABI. |
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| APRIL 1915 |
APRIL 1915 |
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GALLIPOLI
PENINSULA |
26th |
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Positions on night of 26/27 April. |
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North East from SITIL BAHR - I Co. HANTS. & 1 Co.
R. DUB. FUS. |
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OLD CASTLE to Single Tree - 4 Cos. R. MUNS. FUS.
Thence to L in HOSPITAL up to No 2 Redoubt exclusive.
WORC. Regt.
Redoubt No. 2 to ROYAL SCOTS - ESSEX Regt.
From R. SCOTS, 2 Cos. HANTS then 1 LAN. FUS. & R. FUS. to cliff
edge.
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27th |
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Firing from Turks on left of our position. |
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8am |
Turks withdrew. All quiet & patrols in front line
for 1 mile. |
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2pm |
2 Battns. 175 Regt. of French Inf[antr]y. landed &
joined our forces. |
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4pm |
Battn. left trenches & put in Divisional Reserve
with R. Fus. R. DUB. FUS. & R. MUNS. FUS. |
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28th |
8am |
Ordered to move forward & occupy trenches dug on
night of 27th/28th April on line point 236, N.E. of ESSI HISSARLIK
to mouth of stream in square 168
On arrival at trenches ordered to move forward with Divl. Reserve,
go through 88 Infy Bde. & carry on attack to KRITHIA. |
App. X
orders for occupation of new line |
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1pm |
Attack ordered by Bde. Major to push on through small
fir wood. Turks retired in small numbers from opposite slope. |
App. XI orderS for pushing on attack |
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Remarks and references to Appendices
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APRIL 1915 |
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GALLIPOLI
PENINSULA |
28th |
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Turks fired heavily all the afternoon.
No change in situation. |
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Owing to retirement of French troops on
our right flank, the advanced line of the attacking troops could not
hold their forward position in small fir wood about 1000 yards S.W.
of KRITHIA. |
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29th |
4am |
1 LAN. FUS. was ordered to entrench in
square 175Z ?2-6.
Lt Col. WILLIAMS HANTS Regt. took over command of 86 Inf. Bde. |
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2pm |
The line of trenches was straightened out
& the 1 LAN. FUS. entrenched on a line 176 V 4-8. |
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30th |
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No change in situation. Effective strength
of Battn. 11 officers 354 men. 1 medical officer. 1 Interpreter. 1
(?) Sergt. |
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H.R.Bishop Major
Cmdg. 1st Bn. LAN. FUS.
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