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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Five Months at Anzac + A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer + Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial + Force + +Author: Joseph Lievesley Beeston + +Release Date: May 24, 2005 [EBook #15896] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIVE MONTHS AT ANZAC *** + + + + +Produced by Elaine Walker and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. + + + + + +</pre> + +<p class="ctr"> <img src="images/01.jpg" alt="ANZAC COVE." height="393" width="572"> +</p> +<p class="imgcaption"> +ANZAC COVE. +<br> +<i> +Photo by Lieut.-Col. Millard.</i> +</p> +<h1> +FIVE MONTHS AT ANZAC +</h1> +<h3> +A NARRATIVE OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE 4th FIELD AMBULANCE, AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE +</h3> +<p> + +</p> +<h4> +<i> +By +</i> +</h4> +<h2> +JOSEPH LIEVESLEY BEESTON +</h2> +<p class="ctr"> +C.M.G., V.D., L.R.C.S.I., Colonel A.A.M.C. Late O.C. 4th Field Ambulance, late A.D.M.S. New Zealand and Australian Division +</p> +<p> + +</p> +<h4> +<i> +WITH PHOTOGRAPHS +</i> +</h4> +<p class="ctr"> +SYDNEY +<br> +ANGUS & ROBERTSON LTD. +<br> +89 CASTLEREAGH STREET +</p> +<p class="ctr"> +1916 +</p> +<p class="ctr"> +W.C. Penfold & Co. Ltd., Printers, +<br> +183 Pitt Street, Sydney. +</p> +<p> + +</p> +<p class="ctr"> +DEDICATED TO +</p> +<p class="ctr"> +THE OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 4th FIELD +AMBULANCE, A.I.F., OF WHOSE LOYALTY AND DEVOTION TO DUTY THE WRITER +HEREBY EXPRESSES HIS DEEP APPRECIATION. +</p> +<hr class="med"> +<h3> +CONTENTS +</h3> +<ul> +<li> +<a href="#fourthfield"> +FOURTH FIELD AMBULANCE</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#voyage"> +THE VOYAGE</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#egypt"> +EGYPT</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#gallipoli"> +TO GALLIPOLI</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#landing"> +THE ANZAC LANDING</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#peninsula"> +AT WORK ON THE PENINSULA</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#yarns"> +INCIDENTS AND YARNS</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#air"> +AIR FIGHTING</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#mess"> +THE OFFICERS' MESS</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#armistice"> +THE ARMISTICE</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#triumph"> +TORPEDOING OF THE +<i> +TRIUMPH</i></a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#destroyers"> +THE DESTROYERS</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#indian"> +THE INDIAN REGIMENTS</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#swimming"> +THE SWIMMING</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#prisoners"> +TURKISH PRISONERS</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#postoffice"> +POST OFFICE</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#sanitary"> +SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#simpson"> +SIMPSON</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#church"> +CHURCH SERVICES</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#engineers"> +THE ENGINEERS</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#attack"> +TURKS ATTACK</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#redcross"> +RED CROSS</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#advance"> +PREPARING FOR THE ADVANCE</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#attempt"> +THE ATTEMPT ON SARI BAIR</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#ambulance"> +AMBULANCE WORK</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#artillery"> +ARTILLERY</a> +</li> +<li> +<a href="#fighters"> +TURKS AS FIGHTERS</a> +</li> +</ul> +<hr class="long"> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="fourthfield"> +FOURTH FIELD AMBULANCE +</a> +</p> +<p>Shortly after the outbreak of War—after the first contingent had +been mobilised, and while they were undergoing training—it became +evident that it would be necessary to raise another force to proceed on +the heels of the first. Three Infantry Brigades with their Ambulances +had already been formed; orders for a fourth were now issued, and +naturally the Ambulance would be designated Fourth Field Ambulance. +</p> +<p>The Fourth Brigade was composed of the 13th Battalion (N.S.W.), 14th +(Victoria), 15th (Queensland) and 16th (Western Australia)—commanded +respectively by Lieutenant-Colonel Burnage, Lieutenant-Colonel +Courtnay, Lieutenant-Colonel Cannon and Lieutenant-Colonel Pope. The +Brigade was in charge of Colonel Monash, V.D., with Lieutenant-Colonel +McGlinn as his Brigade Major. +</p> +<p>As it will be necessary from time to time to allude to the component +parts of the Ambulance, it may be as well to describe how an ambulance +is made up. It is composed of three sections, known as A, B, and C, the +total of all ranks being 254 on a war strength. It is subdivided into +Bearer, Tent and Transport Divisions. Each section has its own +officers, and is capable of acting independently. Where there is an +extended front, it is frequently desirable to detach sections and send +them to positions where the work is heaviest. +</p> +<p>As the name implies, the Bearers convey the wounded to the dressing +station (or Field Hospital, as the case may be). Those in the Tent +Division dress the cases and perform nursing duties, while the +Transport Division undertakes their conveyance to Base Hospital. +</p> +<p>It was decided to recruit the Fourth Field Ambulance from three +States, A Section from Victoria, B from South Australia, C from Western +Australia. Recruiting started in Broadmeadows, Victoria, on the 19th +October, 1914, and thirty men enrolled from New South Wales were +included in A Section. Towards the end of November B Section from South +Australia joined us, and participated in the training. On the 22nd +December we embarked on a transport forming one of a convoy of eighteen +ships. The nineteenth ship —— joined after we left Albany. +</p> +<p>Details from the Ambulance were supplied to different ships and the +officers distributed among the fleet. Our last port in Australia was +Albany, which was cleared on the last day of 1914—a beautiful night and +clear day, with the sea as smooth as the proverbial glass. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="voyage"> +THE VOYAGE +</a> +</p> +<p>The convoy was under the command of Captain Brewis—a most capable +and courteous officer, but a strict disciplinarian. To a landsman, his +control of the various ships and his forethought in obtaining supplies +seemed little short of marvellous. I had the good fortune to be +associated with Captain Brewis on the passage from Colombo to +Alexandria on board the —— and his friendship is a pleasant memory. +</p> +<p>The fleet was arranged in three lines, each ship being about three +lengths astern of the one ahead. The sight was most inspiriting, and +made one feel proud of the privilege of participation. The —— towed the +submarine AE2, and kept clear of the convoy, sometimes ahead, then +astern, so that we viewed the convoy from all points. +</p> +<p>The day after leaving Albany a steamer, which proved to be the ——, +joined us with C Section of our Ambulance. Signals were made for the —— +—— to move ahead and the —— to drop astern, the —— moving into the +vacant place. The manoeuvre was carried out in a most seamanlike +manner, and Captain Young of the —— received many compliments on his +performance. +</p> +<p>Three days later a message was flagged from the —— that Major +Stewart (who commanded the C Section of the Ambulance) was ill with +enteric, and that his condition was serious. The flagship then sent +orders (also by flag) "Colonel Beeston will proceed to —— and will +remain there until next port. —— to provide transport." A boat was +hoisted out, and Sergeant Draper as a nurse, Walkley my orderly, my +little dog Paddy and I were lowered from the boat deck. What appeared +smooth water proved to a long undulating swell; no water was shipped, +but the fleet at times was not visible when the boat was in the trough +of the sea. +</p> +<p>However, the —— was manoeuvred so as to form a shelter, and we +gained the deck by means of the companion ladder as comfortably as if +we had been in harbour. Major Stewart's illness proved to be of such a +nature that his disembarkation at Colombo was imperative, and on our +arrival there he was left in the hospital. +</p> +<p>The heat in the tropics was very oppressive, and the horses suffered +considerably. One day all the ships carrying horses were turned about +and steamed for twenty minutes in the opposite direction in order to +obtain a breath of air for the poor animals. In the holds the +temperature was 90° and steamy at that. The sight of horses down a +ship's hold is a novel one. Each is in a stall of such dimensions that +the animal cannot be knocked about. All heads are inwards, and each +horse has his own trough. At a certain time in the day lucerne hay is +issued. This is the signal for a prodigious amount of stamping and +noise on the part of the animals. They throw their heads about, snort +and neigh, and seem as if they would jump over the barriers in their +frantic effort to get a good feed. Horses on land are nice beasts, but +on board ship they are a totally different proposition. One intelligent +neddy stabled just outside my cabin spent the night in stamping on an +adjacent steam pipe; consequently my sleep was of a disturbed nature, +and not so restful as one might look for on a sea voyage. When he +became tired, the brute on the opposite side took up the refrain, so +that it seemed like Morse signalling on a large scale. +</p> +<p>We reached Colombo on the 13th January, and found a number of ships +of various nationalities in the harbour. Our convoy almost filled it. +We were soon surrounded by boats offering for sale all sorts of things, +mostly edibles. Of course no one was allowed on board. +</p> +<p>After arranging for Major Stewart's accommodation at the hospital, +we transferred from the —— to the ——. The voyage was resumed on the +15th. When a few days out, one of the ships flagged that there were two +cases of appendicitis on board. The convoy was stopped; the ship drew +near ours, and lowered a boat with the two cases, which was soon +alongside. Meanwhile a large box which had been made by our carpenter +was lowered over the side by a winch on the boat deck; the cases were +placed in it and hoisted aboard, where the stretcher-bearers conveyed +them to the hospital. Examination showed that operation was necessary +in both cases, and the necessary preparations were made. +</p> +<p>The day was a glorious one—not a cloud in the sky, and the sea +almost oily in its smoothness. As the hospital was full of cases of +measles, it was decided to operate on deck a little aft of the +hospital. A guard was placed to keep inquisitive onlookers at a +distance, and the two operations were carried out successfully. It was +a novel experience to operate under these conditions. When one looked +up from the work, instead of the usual tiled walls of a hospital +theatre, one saw nothing but the sea and the transports. After all, +they were ideal conditions; for the air was absolutely pure and free +from any kind of germ. +</p> +<p>While the convoy was stopped, the opportunity was taken to transfer +Lieutenant-Colonel Bean from the —— to the ——. There had been a number +of fatal cases on board the latter vessel, and it was deemed advisable +to place a senior officer on board. +</p> +<p>On arrival at Aden I had personal experience of the worth of the Red +Cross Society. A number of cases had died aboard one of the transports, +and I had to go over to investigate. The sea was fairly rough, the boat +rising and falling ten or twelve feet. For a landsman to gain a ladder +on a ship's side under these conditions is not a thing of undiluted +joy. Anyhow I missed the ladder and went into the water. The first fear +one had was that the boat would drop on one's head; however, I was +hauled on board by two hefty sailors. The inspection finished, we were +rowed back to our own ship, wet and cold. By the time "home" was +reached I felt pretty chilly; a hot bath soon put me right, and a +dressing gown was dug out of the Red Cross goods supplied to the ship, +in which I remained while my clothes were drying. Sewn inside was a +card on which was printed: "Will the recipient kindly write his +personal experiences to George W. Parker, Daylesford, Victoria, +Australia." I wrote to Mr. Parker from Suez. I would recommend everyone +sending articles of this kind to put a similar notice inside. To be +able to acknowledge kindness is as gratifying to the recipient as the +knowledge of its usefulness is to the giver. +</p> +<p>The voyage to Suez (which was reached on the 28th January) was +uneventful. We arrived there about 4 in the morning and found most of +our convoy around us when we got on deck at daylight. Here we got news +of the Turks' attack on the Canal. We heard that there had been a brush +with the Turks, in which Australians had participated, and all the +ships were to be sandbagged round the bridge. Bags of flour were used +on the ——. +</p> +<p>The submarine cast off from the —— outside and came alongside our +ship. I was invited to go and inspect her, and Paddy accompanied me. On +going below, however, I left him on the deck, and by some means he +slipped overboard (this appears to run in the family on this trip); one +of the crew fished him out, and he was sent up on to the ——. When I got +back I found Colonel Monash, the Brigadier, running up and down the +deck with the dog so that he would not catch cold! The Colonel was +almost as fond of the dog as I was. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="egypt"> +EGYPT +</a> +</p> +<p>All along the canal we saw troops entrenched—chiefly Indians. This +at the time was very novel—we little knew then how familiar trenches +would become. At various points—about every four or five miles-a +warship was passed. The troops on each ship stood to attention and the +bugler blew the general salute. Port Said was reached in the afternoon, +and here a great calamity overtook me. Paddy was lost! He was seen +going ashore in the boat which took the mails. Though orders were out +against any one's leaving the ship, Colonel Monash offered me +permission to go and look for him. With Sergeant Nickson and Walkley I +started off and tramped through all sorts of slums and places, without +any success. Finally we returned to the water front, where one of the +natives (a little more intelligent than the others) took me to the +Custom House close by. One of the officials could speak a little +English, and in response to my enquiry he turned up a large book. Then +I saw, among a lot of Egyptian writing, PADDY 4 A.M.C. MORMON. This +corresponded to his identity disc, which was round his neck. He was out +at the abattoirs, where after a three-mile drive we obtained him. His +return to the ship was hailed by the men with vociferous cheers. +</p> +<p>On arrival at Alexandria we made arrangements for the disembarkation +of all our sick, Lieutenant-Colonel Beach superintending their +transport. We left soon after by rail for Heilwan, arriving after +nightfall. A guide was detailed to conduct us to camp, and we set out +to march a couple of miles across the desert. It was quite cold, so +that the march was rather good; but, loaded as we were, in full +marching order and soft after a long sea voyage, it was a stiff tramp. +In the pitch dark, as silent as the grave, we stumbled along, and +finally arrived at the camp outside Heliopolis, a place known as the +Aerodrome. +</p> +<p>Lieutenant-Colonel Sutherland and Major Helsham were camped with +their Ambulance close by, and with most kindly forethought had pitched +our tents for us. We just lay down in our greatcoats and slept until +morning. Our Brigade was camped just across the road, and formed part +of the New Zealand and Australian Division under General Sir Alexander +Godley. +</p> +<p>Training soon began, and everyone seemed full of the idea of making +himself "fit." Our peace camps and continuous training at home look +very puny and small in comparison with the work which now occupied our +time. At manoeuvres the number of troops might be anything up to thirty +thousand. To march in the rear of such a column meant that each of the +Ambulances soon swallowed its peck of dirt. But with it all we were +healthy and vigorous. As an Ambulance we practiced all sorts of +movements. Under supposition that we might have to retreat suddenly, +the whole camp would be struck, packed on the waggon and taken down the +Suez road, where it was pitched again, ready to receive patients; then +tents would be struck and a return made to camp. Or we would make a +start after nightfall and practise the movements without lights; the +transport handling the horses in the dark. Or the different sections +would march out independently, and concentrate on a point agreed upon. +It was great practice, but in the end not necessary; for we went, not +to France, as we expected, but to Gallipoli, where we had no horses. +However, it taught the men to believe in themselves. That period of +training was great. Everyone benefited, and by the beginning of April +we felt fit for anything. +</p> +<p>We were exceedingly well looked after in the way of a standing camp. +Sand of course was everywhere, but when watered it became quite hard, +and the quadrangle made a fine drill ground. Each unit had a mess house +in which the men had their meals; there was an abundant supply of water +obtained from the Nile, so that shower baths were plentiful. Canteens +were established, and the men were able to supplement their rations. +The Y.M.C.A. erected buildings for the men's entertainment, which +served an excellent purpose in keeping the troops in camp. +Cinematographs showed pictures, and all round the camp dealers +established shops, so that there was very little inducement for men to +leave at night. A good deal of our time was occupied in weeding out +undesirables from the Brigade. Thank goodness, I had not to send a man +from the Ambulance back for this reason. +</p> +<p>Apart from the instructive side of our stay in Egypt, the sojourn +was most educational. We were camped just on the edge of the Land of +Goshen; the place where Joseph obtained his wife was only about a mile +away from my tent, and the well where the Virgin Mother rested with our +Saviour was in close proximity. The same water wheels are here as are +mentioned in the Bible, and one can see the camels and asses brought to +water, and the women going to and fro with pitchers on their heads. +Then in the museum in Cairo one could see the mummy of the Pharaoh of +Joseph's time. All this made the Bible quite the most interesting book +to read. +</p> +<p>The troops having undergone pretty strenuous training, we were +inspected by Sir Ian Hamilton, who was to command us in the forthcoming +campaign. Then, early in April, the commanding officers of units were +assembled at Headquarters and the different ships allotted. Finally, on +the evening of the 11th April, our camp was struck, and; we bade +good-bye to Heliopolis. The waggons were packed and the Ambulance moved +off, marching to the Railway Station in Cairo. Nine-thirty was the time +fixed for our entraining, and we were there on the minute—and it was as +well that such was the case, for General Williams stood at the gate to +watch proceedings. +</p> +<p>The waggons with four horses (drivers mounted, of course) were taken +at a trot up an incline, through a narrow gateway on to the platform. +The horses were then taken out and to the rear, and the waggons placed +on the trucks by Egyptian porters. +</p> +<p>We had 16 vehicles, 69 horses, 10 officers and 245 men. The whole +were entrained in 35 minutes. The General was very pleased with the +performance, and asked me to convey his approbation to the men. +Certainly they did well. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="gallipoli"> +TO GALLIPOLI +</a> +</p> +<p>At midnight we left Cairo and arrived at daybreak at Alexandria, the +train running right on to the wharf, alongside which was the transport +to convey us to Gallipoli—the Dardanelles we called it then. Loading +started almost immediately, and I found that I—who in ordinary life am +a peaceful citizen and a surgeon by profession—had to direct operations +by which our waggons were to be removed from the railway trucks on to +the wharf and thence to the ship's hold. Men with some knowledge of the +mysteries of steam winches had to be specially selected and instructed +in these duties, and I—well, beyond at times watching a ship being +loaded at Newcastle, I was as innocent of their details as the unborn +babe. However, everyone went at it, and the transport was loaded soon +after dinner. We had the New Zealand Battery of Artillery, Battery +Ammunition Column, 14th Battalion Transport and Army Service Corps with +us, the whole numbering 560 men and 480 horses. At 4 p.m. the ship cast +off, and we went to the outer harbour and began to shake down. The same +hour the next day saw us under weigh for the front. The voyage was +quite uneventful, the sea beautifully calm, and the various islands in +the Egean Sea most picturesque. Three days later we arrived at Lemnos, +and found the harbour (which is of considerable size) packed with +warships and transports. I counted 20 warships of various sizes and +nationalities. The +<i> +Agamemnon +</i>was just opposite us, showing signs of the damage she had received +in the bombardment of the Turkish forts a couple of months before. We +stayed here a week, and every day practised going ashore in boats, each +man in full marching order leaving the ship by the pilot ladder. +</p> +<p>It is extraordinary how one adapts oneself to circumstances. For +years it has been almost painful to me to look down from a height; as +for going down a ladder, in ordinary times I could not do it. However, +here there was no help for it; a commanding officer cannot order his +men to do what he will not do himself, so up and down we went in full +marching order. Bearer work was carried out among the stony hills which +surround the harbour. +</p> +<p> +Finally, on the 24th April, the whole armada got under weigh, headed by the +<i> +Queen Elizabeth</i>, or as the men affectionately termed her, +"Lizzie." We had been under steam for only about four hours when a case +of smallpox was reported on board. As the captain informed me he had +time to spare, we returned to Lemnor and landed the man, afterwards +proceeding on our journey. At night the ship was darkened. Our ship +carried eight horse-boats, which were to be used by the 29th Division +in their landing at Cape Helles. +</p> +<p>Just about dawn on Sunday the 25th I came on deck and could see the +forms of a number of warships in close proximity to us, with destroyers +here and there and numbers of transports. Suddenly one ship fired a +gun, and then they were all at it, the Turks replying in quick time +from the forts on Seddul Bahr, as well as from those on the Asiatic +side. None of our ships appeared to be hit, but great clouds of dust +were thrown up in the forts opposite us. Meanwhile destroyers were +passing us loaded with troops, and barges filled with grim and +determined-looking men were being towed towards the shore. One could +not help wondering how many of them would be alive in an hour's time. +Slowly they neared the cliffs; as the first barge appeared to ground, a +burst of fire broke out along the beach, alternately rifles and machine +guns. The men leaped out of the barges—almost at once the firing on the +beach ceased, and more came from halfway up the cliff. The troops had +obviously landed, and were driving the Turks back. After a couple of +hours the top of the cliff was gained; there the troops became exposed +to a very heavy fire from some batteries of artillery placed well in +the rear, to which the warships attended as soon as they could locate +them. The +<i> +Queen Elizabeth +</i>was close by us, apparently watching a village just under the fort. +Evidently some guns were placed there. She loosed off her two +fifteen-inch guns, and after the dust had cleared away we could see +that new streets had been made for the inhabitants. Meanwhile the +British had gained the top and were making headway, but losing a lot of +men—one could see them falling everywhere. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="landing"> +THE ANZAC LANDING +</a> +</p> +<p>The horse-boats having been got overboard, we continued our voyage +towards what is now know as Anzac. Troops—Australians and New +Zealanders—were being taken ashore in barges. Warships were firing +apparently as fast as they could load, the Turks replying with equal +cordiality. In fact, as Captain Dawson remarked to me, it was quite the +most "willing" Sunday he had ever seen. +</p> +<p>Our troops were ascending the hills through a dwarf scrub, just low +enough to let us see the men's heads, though sometimes we could only +locate them by the glint of the bayonets in the sunshine. Everywhere +they were pushing on in extended order, but many falling. The Turks +appeared to have the range pretty accurately. About mid-day our men +seemed to be held up, the Turkish shrapnel appearing to be too much for +them. It was now that there occurred what I think one of the finest +incidents of the campaign. This was the landing of the Australian +Artillery. They got two of their guns ashore, and over very rough +country dragged them up the hills with what looked like a hundred men +to each. Up they went, through a wheat-field, covered and plastered +with shrapnel, but with never a stop until the crest of the hill on the +right was reached. Very little time was wasted in getting into action, +and from this time it became evident that we were there to stay. +</p> +<p>The practice of the naval guns was simply perfect. They lodged shell +after shell just in front of the foremost rank of our men; in response +to a message asking them to clear one of the gullies, one ship placed +shell after shell up that gully, each about a hundred yards apart, and +in as straight a line as if they were ploughing the ground for Johnny +Turk, instead of making the place too hot to hold him. +</p> +<p>The Turks now began to try for this warship, and in their endeavours +almost succeeded in getting the vessel we were on, as a shell burst +right overhead. +</p> +<p>The wounded now began to come back, and the one hospital ship there +was filled in a very short time. Every available transport was then +utilised for the reception of casualties, and as each was filled she +steamed off to the base at Alexandria. As night came on we appeared to +have a good hold of the place, and orders came for our bearer division +to land. They took with them three days' "iron" rations, which +consisted of a tin of bully beef, a bag of small biscuits, and some tea +and sugar, dixies, a tent, medical comforts, and (for firewood) all the +empty cases we could scrape up in the ship. Each squad had a set of +splints, and every man carried a tourniquet and two roller bandages in +his pouch. Orders were issued that the men were to make the contents of +their water-bottles last three days, as no water was available on +shore. +</p> +<p>The following evening the remainder of the Ambulance, less the +transport, was ordered ashore. We embarked in a trawler, and steamed +towards the shore in the growing dusk as far as the depth of water +would allow. The night was bitterly cold, it was raining, and all felt +this was real soldiering. None of us could understand what occasioned +the noise we heard at times, of something hitting the iron deck houses +behind us; at last one of the men exclaimed: "Those are bullets, sir," +so that we were having our baptism of fire. It was marvellous that no +one was hit, for they were fairly frequent, and we all stood closely +packed. Finally the skipper of the trawler, Captain Hubbard, told me he +did not think we could be taken off that night, and therefore intended +to drop anchor. He invited Major Meikle and myself to the cabin, where +the cook served out hot tea to all hands. I have drunk a considerable +number of cups of tea in my time, but that mug was very, very nice. The +night was spent dozing where we stood, Paddy being very disturbed with +the noise of the guns. +</p> +<p>At daylight a barge was towed out and, after placing all our +equipment on board, we started for the beach. As soon as the barge +grounded, we jumped out into the water (which was about waist deep) and +got to dry land. Colonel Manders, the A.D.M.S. of our Division, was +there, and directed us up a gully where we were to stay in reserve for +the time being, meantime to take lightly-wounded cases. One tent was +pitched and dug-outs made for both men and patients, the Turks +supplying shrapnel pretty freely. Our position happened to be in rear +of a mountain battery, whose guns the Turks appeared very anxious to +silence, and any shells the battery did not want came over to us. As +soon as we were settled down I had time to look round. Down on the +beach the 1st Casualty Clearing Station (under Lieutenant-Colonel +Giblin) and the Ambulance of the Royal Marine Light Infantry were at +work. There were scores of casualties awaiting treatment, some of them +horribly knocked about. It was my first experience of such a number of +cases. In civil practice, if an accident took place in which three or +four men were injured, the occurrence would be deemed out of the +ordinary: but here there were almost as many hundreds, and all the +flower of Australia. It made one feel really that, in the words of +General Sherman, "War is hell," and it seemed damnable that it should +be in the power of one man, even if be he the German Emperor, to decree +that all these men should be mutilated or killed. The great majority +were just coming into manhood with all their life before them. The +stoicism and fortitude with which they bore their pain was truly +remarkable. Every one of them was cheery and optimistic; there was not +a murmur; the only requests were for a cigarette or a drink of water. +One felt very proud of these Australians, each waiting his turn to be +dressed without complaining. It really quite unnerved me for a time. +However, it was no time to allow the sentimental side of one's nature +to come uppermost. +</p> +<p>I watched the pinnaces towing the barges in. Each pinnace belonged +to a warship and was in charge of a midshipman—dubbed by his shipmates +a "snotty." This name originates from the days of Trafalgar. The little +chaps appear to have suffered from chronic colds in the head, with the +usual accompaniment of a copious flow from the nasal organs. Before +addressing an officer the boys would clean their faces by drawing the +sleeve of their jacket across the nose; and, I understand that this +practice so incensed Lord Nelson that he ordered three brass buttons to +be sewn on the wristbands of the boys' jackets. However, this is by the +way. These boys, of all ages from 14 to 16, were steering their +pinnaces with supreme indifference to the shrapnel falling about, +disdaining any cover and as cool as if there was no such thing as war. +I spoke to one, remarking that they were having a great time. He was a +bright, chubby, sunny-faced little chap, and with a smile said: "Isn't +it beautiful, sir? When we started, there were sixteen of us, and now +there are only six!" This is the class of man they make officers out of +in Britain's navy, and while this is so there need be no fear of the +result of any encounter with the Germans. +</p> +<p>Another boy, bringing a barge full of men ashore, directed them to +lie down and take all the cover they could, he meanwhile steering the +pinnace and standing quite unconcernedly with one foot on the boat's +rail. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="peninsula"> +AT WORK ON THE PENINSULA +</a> +</p> +<p>Casualties began to come in pretty freely, so that our tent was soon +filled. We now commenced making dug-outs in the side of the gully and +placing the men in these. Meantime stores of all kinds were being +accumulated on the beach—stacks of biscuits, cheese and preserved beef, +all of the best. One particular kind of biscuit, known as the +"forty-niners," had forty-nine holes in it, was believed to take +forty-nine years to bake, and needed forty-nine chews to a bite. But +there were also beautiful hams and preserved vegetables, and with these +and a tube of Oxo a very palatable soup could be prepared. A well-known +firm in England puts up a tin which they term an Army Ration, +consisting of meat and vegetables, nicely seasoned and very palatable. +For a time this ration was eagerly looked for and appreciated, but +later on, when the men began to get stale, it did not agree with them +so well; it appeared to be too rich for many of us. We had plenty of +jam, of a kind—one kind. Oh! how we used to revile the maker of "Damson +and Apple'!" The damson coloured it, and whatever they used for apple +gave it body. +</p> +<p>One thing was good all the time, and that was the tea. The brand +never wavered, and the flavour was always full. Maynard could always +make a good cup of it. It has been already mentioned that water was not +at first available on shore. This was soon overcome, thanks to the +Navy. They convoyed water barges from somewhere, which they placed +along shore; the water was then pumped into our water carts, and the +men filled their water-bottles from them. The water, however, never +appeared to quench our thirst. It was always better made up into tea, +or taken with lime juice when we could get it. +</p> +<p>Tobacco, cigarettes and matches were on issue, but the tobacco was +of too light a brand for me, so that Walkley used to trade off my share +of the pernicious weed for matches. The latter became a precious +commodity. I have seen three men light their pipes from one match. +Captain Welch was very independent; he had a burning glass, and +obtained his light from the sun. After a few days the R.M.L.I. were +ordered away, and we were directed to take up their position on the +beach. A place for operating was prepared by putting sandbags at either +end, the roof being formed by planks covered with sandbags and loose +earth. Stanchions of 4 x 4 in. timber were driven into the ground, with +crosspieces at a convenient height; the stretcher was placed on these, +and thus an operating table was formed. Shelves were made to hold our +instruments, trays and bottles; these were all in charge of +Staff-Sergeant Henderson, a most capable and willing assistant. Close +by a kitchen was made, and a cook kept constantly employed keeping a +supply of hot water, bovril, milk and biscuits ready for the men when +they came in wounded, for they had to be fed as well as medically +attended to. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="yarns"> +INCIDENTS AND YARNS +</a> +</p> +<p>One never ceased admiring our men, and their cheeriness under these +circumstances and their droll remarks caused us many a laugh. One man, +just blown up by a shell, informed us that it was a —— of a place—'no +place to take a lady.' Another told of the mishap to his "cobber," who +picked up a bomb and blew on it to make it light; "all at once it blew +his —— head off—Gorblime! you would have laughed!" For lurid and +perfervid language commend me to the Australian Tommy. Profanity oozes +from him like music from a barrel organ. At the same time, he will give +you his idea of the situation, almost without exception in an +optimistic strain, generally concluding his observation with the +intimation that "We gave them hell." I have seen scores of them lying +wounded and yet chatting one to another while waiting their turn to be +dressed. The stretcher-bearers were a fine body of men. Prior to this +campaign, the Army Medical Corps was always looked upon as a soft job. +In peacetime we had to submit to all sorts of flippant remarks, and +were called Linseed Lancers, Body-snatchers, and other cheery and +jovial names; but, thanks to Abdul and the cordiality of his reception, +the A.A.M.C. can hold up their heads with any of the fighting troops. +It was a common thing to hear men say: "This beach is a hell of a +place! The trenches are better than this." The praises of the +stretcher-bearers were in all the men's mouths; enough could not be +said in their favour. Owing to the impossibility of landing the +transport, all the wounded had to be carried; often for a distance of a +mile and a half, in a blazing sun, and through shrapnel and machine-gun +fire. But there was never a flinch; through it all they went, and +performed their duty. Of our Ambulance 185 men and officers landed, and +when I relinquished command, 43 remained. At one time we were losing so +many bearers, that carrying during the day-time was abandoned, and +orders were given that it should only be undertaken after night-fall. +On one occasion a man was being sent off to the hospital ship from our +tent in the gully. He was not very bad, but he felt like being carried +down. As the party went along the beach, Beachy Bill became active; one +of the bearers lost his leg, the other was wounded, but the man who was +being carried down got up and ran! All the remarks I have made +regarding the intrepidity and valour of the stretcher-bearers apply +also to the regimental bearers. These are made up from the bandsmen. +Very few people think, when they see the band leading the battalion in +parade through the streets, what happens to them on active service. +Here bands are not thought of; the instruments are left at the base, +and the men become bearers, and carry the wounded out of the front line +for the Ambulance men to care for. Many a stretcher-bearer has deserved +the V.C. +</p> +<p>One of ours told me they had reached a man severely wounded in the +leg, in close proximity to his dug-out. After he had been placed on the +stretcher and made comfortable, he was asked whether there was anything +he would like to take with him. He pondered a bit, and then said: "Oh! +you might give me my diary—I would like to make a note of this before I +forget it!" +</p> +<p>It can be readily understood that in dealing with large bodies of +men, such as ours, a considerable degree of organization is necessary, +in order to keep an account, not only of the man, but of the nature of +his injury (or illness, as the case may be) and of his destination. +Without method chaos would soon reign. As each casualty came in he was +examined, and dressed or operated upon as the necessity arose. Sergeant +Baxter then got orders from the officer as to where the case was to be +sent. A ticket was made out, containing the man's name, his regimental +number, the nature of his complaint, whether morphia had been +administered and the quantity, and finally his destination. All this +was also recorded in our books, and returns made weekly, both to +headquarters and to the base. Cases likely to recover in a fortnight's +time were sent by fleet-sweeper to Mudros; the others were embarked on +the hospital ship. They were placed in barges, and towed out by a +pinnace to a trawler, and by that to the hospital ship, where the cases +were sorted out. When once they had left the beach, our knowledge of +them ceased, and of course our responsibility. One man arriving at the +hospital ship was describing, with the usual picturesque invective, how +the bullet had got into his shoulder. One of the officers, who +apparently was unacquainted with the Australian vocabulary, said: "What +was that you said, my man?" The reply came, "A blightah ovah theah put +a bullet in heah." +</p> +<p>At a later period a new gun had come into action on our left, which +the men christened "Windy Annie." Beachy Bill occupied the olive grove, +and was on our right. Annie was getting the range of our dressing +station pretty accurately, and requisition on the Engineers evoked the +information that sandbags were not available. However, the Army Service +came to our rescue with some old friends, the "forty-niners." Three +tiers of these in their boxes defied the shells just as they defied our +teeth. +</p> +<p>As the sickness began to be more manifest, it became necessary to +enlarge the accommodation in our gully. The hill was dug out, and the +soil placed in bags with which a wall was built, the intervening +portion being filled up with the remainder of the hill. By this means +we were able to pitch a second tent and house more of those who were +slightly ill. It was in connection with this engineering scheme that I +found the value of W.O. Cosgrove. He was possessed of a good deal of +the +<i> +suaviter in modo</i>, and it was owing to his dextrous handling +of Ordnance that we got such a fine supply of bags. This necessitated a +redistribution of dug-outs, and a line of them was constructed +sufficient to take a section of bearers. The men christened this +"Shrapnel Avenue." They called my dug-out "The Nut," because it held +the "Kernel." I offer this with every apology. It's not my joke. +</p> +<p>The new dug-outs were not too safe. Murphy was killed there one +afternoon, and Claude Grime badly wounded later on. Claude caused a +good deal of amusement. He had a rooted objection to putting on clothes +and wore only a hat, pants, boots and his smile. Consequently his body +became quite mahogany-coloured. When he was wounded he was put under an +anćsthetic so that I could search for the bullet. As the anćsthetic +began to take effect, Claude talked the usual unintelligible gibberish. +Now, we happened to have a Turkish prisoner at the time, and in the +midst of Claude's struggles and shouts in rushed an interpreter. He +looked round, and promptly came over to Claude, uttering words which I +suppose were calculated to soothe a wounded Turk; and we had some +difficulty in assuring him that the other man, not Claude, was the Turk +he was in quest of. +</p> +<p class="ctr"> <img src="images/02.jpg" alt="4th Field Ambulance in Head Quarters Gully." height="401" width="550"> +</p> +<p class="imgcaption"> +4th Field Ambulance in Head Quarters Gully. +</p> +<p class="ctr"> <img src="images/03.jpg" alt="4th Field Ambulance Dressing Station on the beach." height="394" width="550"> +</p> +<p class="imgcaption"> +4th Field Ambulance Dressing Station on the beach. +</p> +<p class="ctr"> <img src="images/04.jpg" alt="My Dug-out." height="509" width="385"> +</p> +<p class="imgcaption"> +My Dug-out. +</p> +<p class="ctr"> +</p> +<p class="imgcaption"> <img src="images/05.jpg" alt="Major Clayton and Captain Dawson." height="514" width="399"> +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="air"> +AIR FIGHTING +</a> +</p> +<p>The German aeroplanes flew over our gully pretty regularly. As first +we were rather perturbed, as they had a nasty habit of dropping bombs, +but as far as I know they never did any damage. Almost all the bombs +dropped into the water. One of them sent some steel arrows down, about +six or eight inches in length, with a metal point something like a +carpenter's bit. In order to conceal our tents, we covered them with +holly-bushes, cut and placed over the canvas. Our aeroplanes were +constantly up, and were easily recognised by a red ring painted +underneath, while the Taube was adorned with a large black cross; but +after we had been there a little time we found it was not necessary to +use glasses in order to ascertain whose flying machine was over us; we +were able to tell by listening, as their engines had a different sound +from those belonging to us. +</p> +<p>Our aeroplanes were the source of a good deal of annoyance to the +Turks. They continually fired at them, but, as far as I was able to +judge, never went within cooee of one. The bursts of shrapnel away in +the air made a pretty sight, puffs of white smoke like bits of +cotton-wool in succession, and the aeroplane sailing unconcernedly +along. It appears to be very difficult to judge distance away in the +air, and even more difficult to estimate the rate at which the object +is travelling. What became of the shell-cases of the shrapnel used to +puzzle us. One day Walkley remarked that it was peculiar that none fell +on us. I replied "surely there is plenty of room other than where we +are for them to fall." Scarcely were the words uttered than down one +came close by. We knew it was a case from above and not one fired +direct, because the noise was so different. +</p> +<p>The hydroplanes used by the Navy were interesting. Floating on the +water, they would gather way and soar upwards like a bird. Their +construction was different from that of the aeroplanes. +</p> +<p>A captive balloon was used a good deal to give the ranges for the +warships. It was carried on the forepart of a steamer and was, I +believe, in connection with it by telephone or wireless. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="mess"> +THE OFFICERS' MESS +</a> +</p> +<p>We kept up the custom of having an officers' mess right through the +campaign. When we first landed, while everything was in confusion, each +man catered for himself; but it was a lonely business, and not +conducive to health. When a man cooked his own rations he probably did +not eat much. So a dug-out was made close to the hospital tent, and we +all had our meals together. A rather pathetic incident occurred one +day. Just after we had finished lunch three of us were seated, talking +of the meals the "Australia" provided, when a fragment of shell came +through the roof on to the table and broke one of the enamel plates. +This may seem a trivial affair and not worth grousing about; but the +sorry part of it was that we only had one plate each, and this loss +entailed one man having to wait until the others had finished their +banquet. +</p> +<p>I have elsewhere alluded to the stacks of food on the beach. Amongst +them bully beef was largely in evidence. Ford, our cook, was very good +in always endeavouring to disguise the fact that "Bully" was up again. +He used to fry it; occasionally he got curry powder from the Indians +and persuaded us that the resultant compound was curried goose; but it +was bully beef all the time. Then he made what he called +rissoles—onions entered largely into their framework, and when you +opened them you wanted to get out into the fresh air. Preserved +potatoes, too, were very handy. We had them with our meat, and what +remained over we put treacle on, and ate as pancakes. Walkley and Betts +obtained flour on several occasions, and made very presentable +pancakes. John Harris, too, was a great forager—he knew exactly where +to put his hand on decent biscuits, and the smile with which he landed +his booty made the goods toothsome in the extreme. Harris had a +gruesome experience. One day he was seated on a hill, talking to a +friend, when a shell took the friend's head off and scattered his +brains over Harris. +</p> +<p>Before leaving the description of the officers' mess, I must not +omit to introduce our constant companions, the flies. As Australians we +rather prided ourselves on our judgment regarding these pests, and in +Gallipoli we had every opportunity of putting our faculties to the +test. There were flies, big horse flies, blue flies, green flies, and +flies. They turned up everywhere and with everything. While one was +eating one's food with the right hand, one had to keep the left going +with a wisp, and even then the flies beat us. Then we always had the +comforting reflection of those dead Turks not far away—the distance +being nothing to a fly. In order to get a little peace at one meal in +the day, our dinner hour was put back until dusk. Men wounded had a +horrible time. Fortunately we had a good supply of mosquito netting +purchased with the Red Cross money. It was cut up into large squares +and each bearer had a supply. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="armistice"> +THE ARMISTICE +</a> +</p> +<p>On the 23rd of May anyone looking down the coast could see a man on +Gaba Tepe waving a white flag. He was soon joined by another occupied +in a like manner. Some officers came into the Ambulance and asked for +the loan of some towels; we gave them two, which were pinned together +with safety pins. White flags don't form part of the equipment of +Australia's army. +</p> +<p>Seven mounted men had been observed coming down Gaba Tepe, and they +were joined on the beach by our four. The upshot was that one was +brought in blindfolded to General Birdwood. Shortly after we heard it +announced that a truce had been arranged for the following day in order +to bury the dead. +</p> +<p>The following morning Major Millard and I started from our right and +walked up and across the battle-field. It was a stretch of country +between our lines and those of the Turks, and was designated No Man's +Land. At the extreme right there was a small farm; the owner's house +occupied part of it, and was just as the man had left it. Our guns had +knocked it about a good deal. In close proximity was a field of wheat, +in which there were scores of dead Turks. As these had been dead +anything from a fortnight to three weeks their condition may be better +imagined than described. One body I saw was lying with the leg +shattered. He had crawled into a depression in the ground and lay with +his great-coat rolled up for a pillow; the stains on the ground showed +that he had bled to death, and it can only be conjectured how long he +lay there before death relieved him of his sufferings. Scores of the +bodies were simply riddled with bullets. Midway between the trenches a +line of Turkish sentries were posted. Each was in a natty blue uniform +with gold braid, and top boots, and all were done "up to the nines." +Each stood by a white flag on a pole stuck in the ground. We buried all +the dead on our side of this line and they performed a similar office +for those on their side. Stretchers were used to carry the bodies, +which were all placed in large trenches. The stench was awful, and many +of our men wore handkerchiefs over their mouths in their endeavour to +escape it. I counted two thousand dead Turks. One I judged to be an +officer of rank, for the bearers carried him shoulder-high down a gully +to the rear. The ground was absolutely covered with rifles and +equipment of all kinds, shell-cases and caps, and ammunition clips. The +rifles were all collected and the bolts removed to prevent their being +used again. Some of the Turks were lying right on our trenches, almost +in some of them. The Turkish sentries were peaceable-looking men, +stolid in type and of the peasant class mostly. We fraternised with +them and gave them cigarettes and tobacco. Some Germans were there, but +they viewed us with malignant eyes. When I talked to Colonel Pope about +it afterwards he said the Germans were a mean lot of beggars: "Why," +said he most indignantly, "they came and had a look into my trenches." +I asked "What did you do?" He replied, "Well, I had a look at theirs." +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="triumph"> +TORPEDOING OF THE +<i> +TRIUMPH</i> +</a> +</p> +<p>The day after the armistice, at fifteen minutes after noon, I was in +my dug-out when one of the men exclaimed that something was wrong with +the +<i> +Triumph</i>. I ran out and was in time to see the fall of the +water sent up by the explosive. It was a beautifully calm day, and the +ship was about a mile and a quarter from us; she had a decided list +towards us, and it was evident that something was radically wrong. With +glasses one could see the men lined up in two ranks as if on parade, +without the least confusion. Then two destroyers went over and put +their noses on each side of the big ship's bows; all hands from the +<i> +Triumph +</i>marched aboard the destroyers. She was gradually heeling over, and +all movables were slipping into the sea. One of the destroyers barked +three or four shots at something which we took to be the submarine. In +fifteen minutes the +<i> +Triumph +</i>was keel up, the water spurting from her different vent pipes as it +was expelled by the imprisoned air. She lay thus for seventeen minutes, +gradually getting lower and lower in the water, when quietly her stern +rose and she slipped underneath, not a ripple remaining to show where +she had sunk. I have often read of the vortex caused by a ship sinking, +but as far as I could see there was in this case not the slightest +disturbance. It was pathetic to see this beautiful ship torpedoed and +in thirty-two minutes at the bottom of the sea. I believe the only +lives lost were those of men injured by the explosion. Meanwhile five +destroyers came up from Helles at a terrific speed, the water curling +from their bows; they and all the other destroyers circled round and +round the bay, but the submarine lay low and got off. Her commander +certainly did his job well. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="destroyers"> +THE DESTROYERS +</a> +</p> +<p> +After the torpedoing of the +<i> +Triumph +</i> +here, and the +<i> +Majestic +</i>in the Straits all the big ships left and went to Mudros, as there +was no sense in leaving vessels costing over a million each to the +mercy of submarines. This gave the destroyers the chance of their +lives. Up to this they had not been allowed to speak, but now they took +on much of the bombardment required. They were constantly nosing about, +and the slightest movement on the part of the Turks brought forth a +bang from one of their guns. If a Turk so much as winked he received a +rebuke from the destroyer. The Naval men all appeared to have an +unbounded admiration for the Australians as soldiers, and boats rarely +came ashore without bringing some fresh bread or meat or other +delicacy; their tobacco, too, was much sought after. It is made up from +the leaf, and rolled up in spun yarn. The flavour is full, and after a +pipe of it—well, you feel that you have had a smoke. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="indian"> +THE INDIAN REGIMENTS +</a> +</p> +<p>We had a good many Indian regiments in the Army Corps. The mountain +battery occupied a position on "Pluggey's Plateau" in the early stage +of the campaign, and they had a playful way of handing out the shrapnel +to the Turks. It was placed in boiling water to soften the resin in +which the bullets are held. By this means the bullets spread more +readily, much to the joy of the sender and the discomfiture of Abdul. +The Indians were always very solicitous about their wounded. When one +came in to be attended to, he was always followed by two of his chums +bearing, one a water bottle, the other some food, for their caste +prohibits their taking anything directly from our hands. When medicine +had to be administered, the man came in, knelt down, and opened his +mouth, and the medicine was poured into him without the glass touching +his lips. Food was given in the same way. I don't know how they got on +when they were put on the ship. When one was killed, he was wrapped up +in a sheet and his comrades carried him shoulder-high to their +cemetery, for they had a place set apart for their own dead. They were +constantly squatting on their haunches making a sort of pancake. I +tasted one; but it was too fatty and I spat it out, much to the +amusement of the Indians. +</p> +<p>One of them saw the humorous side of life. He described to Mr. +Henderson the different attitudes adopted towards Turkish shells by the +British, Indian and Australian soldiers. "British Tommy," said he, +"Turk shell, Tommy says 'Ah!' Turk shell, Indian say 'Oosh!' Australian +say 'Where the hell did that come from?'" +</p> +<p>The Divisional Ammunition Column was composed of Sikhs, and they +were a brave body of men. It was their job to get the ammunition to the +front line, so that they were always fair targets for the Turks. The +mules were hitched up in threes, one in rear of the other, each mule +carrying two boxes of ammunition. The train might number anything from +15 to 20 mules. All went along at a trot, constantly under fire. When a +mule was hit he was unhitched, the boxes of ammunition were rolled off, +and the train proceeded; nothing stopped them. It was the same if one +of the men became a casualty; he was put on one side to await the +stretcher-bearers—but almost always one of the other men appeared with +a water bottle. +</p> +<p>They were very adept in the management of mules. Frequently a block +would occur while the mule train occupied a sap; the mules at times +became fractious and manipulated their hind legs with the most +marvellous precision—certainly they placed a good deal of weight in +their arguments. But in the midst of it all, when one could see nothing +but mules' heels, straps and ammunition boxes, the Indian drivers would +talk to their charges and soothe them down. I don't know what they +said, but presume it resembled the cooing, coaxing and persuasive +tongue of our bullock-driver. The mules were all stalled in the next +gully to ours, and one afternoon three or four of us were sitting +admiring the sunset when a shell came over. It was different from that +usually sent by Abdul, being seemingly formed of paper and black rag; +someone suggested, too, that there was a good deal of faultiness in the +powder. From subsequent inquiries we found that what we saw going over +our dug-outs was Mule! A shell had burst right in one of them, and the +resultant mass was what we had observed. The Ceylon Tea Planter's Corps +was bivouacked just below us and were having tea at the time; their +repast was mixed with mule. +</p> +<p>Donkeys formed part of the population of the Peninsula. I am +referring here to the four-footed variety, though, of course, others +were in evidence at times. The Neddies were docile little beasts, and +did a great deal of transport work. When we moved out in August, orders +were issued that all equipment was to be carried. I pointed out a drove +of ten of these little animals, which appeared handy and without an +owner, and suggested to the men that they would look well with our +brand on. It took very little time to round them up, cut a cross in the +hair on their backs and place a brassard round their ears. They were +then our property. The other type of donkey generally indulged in what +were known as Furfys or Beachograms. Furfy originated in Broadmeadows, +Victoria; the second title was born in the Peninsula. The least breath +of rumour ran from mouth to mouth in the most astonishing way. Talk +about a Bush Telegraph! It is a tortoise in its movements compared with +a Beachogram. The number of times that Achi Baba fell cannot be +accurately stated but it was twice a day at the least. A man came in to +be dressed on one occasion; suddenly some pretty smart rifle fire broke +out on the right. "Hell!" said the man, "what's up?" "Oh!" said Captain +Dawson, "There's a war on—didn't you hear about it?" +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="swimming"> +THE SWIMMING +</a> +</p> +<p>One thing that was really good in Anzac was the swimming. At first +we used to dive off the barges; then the Engineers built Watson's pier, +at the end of which the water was fifteen feet deep and as clear as +crystal, so that one could see every pebble at the bottom. At times the +water was very cold, but always invigorating. General Birdwood was an +enthusiastic swimmer, but he always caused me a lot of anxiety. That +pier was well covered by Beachy Bill, and one never knew when he might +choose to give it his attention. This did not deter the General. He +came down most regularly, sauntered out to the end, went through a lot +of Sandow exercises and finally jumped in. He then swam out to a buoy +moored about a quarter of a mile away. On his return he was most +leisurely in drying himself. Had anything happened to him I don't know +what the men would have done, for he was adored by everyone. +</p> +<p>Swimming was popular with all hands. Early in the campaign we had a +Turkish attack one morning; it was over by midday, and an hour later +most of the men were in swimming. I think it not unlikely that some of +the "missing" men were due to this habit. They would come to the beach +and leave their clothes and identity discs ashore, and sometimes they +were killed in the water. In this case there was no possibility of +ascertaining their names. It often struck me that this might account +for some whose whereabouts were unknown. +</p> +<p>While swimming, the opportunity was taken by a good many to soak +their pants and shirts, inside which there was, very often, more than +the owner himself. I saw one man fish his pants out; after examining +the seams, he said to his pal: "They're not dead yet." His pal replied +"Never mind, you gave them a —— of a fright." These insects were a +great pest, and I would counsel friends sending parcels to the soldiers +to include a tin of insecticide; it was invaluable when it could be +obtained. I got a fright myself one night. A lot of things were doing +the Melbourne Cup inside my blanket. The horrible thought suggested +itself that I had got "them" too, but a light revealed the presence of +fleas. These were very large able-bodied animals and became our +constant companions at nighttime; in fact, one could only get to sleep +after dosing the blanket with insecticide. +</p> +<p>My little dog Paddy enjoyed the swim almost as much as I did. He was +a great favourite with everybody but the Provost-Martial. This official +was a terror for red tape, and an order came out that dogs were to be +destroyed. That meant that the Military Police were after Paddy. +However, I went to General Birdwood, who was very handsome about it, +and gave me permission to keep the little chap. Almost immediately +after he was reprieved he ran down to the Provost-Martial's dug-out and +barked at him. Paddy was very nearly human. One day we were down as +usual when Beachy Bill got busy, and I had to leave the pier with only +boots and a smile on. I took refuge behind my old friends the biscuits, +and Paddy ran out to each shell, barking until it exploded. Finally one +burst over him and a bullet perforated his abdomen. His squeals were +piteous. He lived until the next day, but he got a soldier's burial. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="prisoners"> +TURKISH PRISONERS +</a> +</p> +<p>We saw a good many Turkish prisoners at one time or another, and +invariably fraternised with them. They were kept inside a barbed-wire +enclosure with a guard over them; but there was no need to prevent +their escape—they would not leave if they got the chance. On one +occasion twelve of them were told to go some distance into the scrub +and bring in some firewood. No one was sent with them, the idea being +to encourage them to go to their lines and persuade some of the Turks +to desert to us. But they were like the cat; they all came back—with +the firewood. +</p> +<p>I saw two of our men on one occasion bringing in a prisoner. They +halted on the hill opposite us, and one of them went to headquarters to +ascertain how the prisoner was to be disposed of. In a very short time +he was surrounded by fourteen or fifteen of our soldiers, trying to +carry on a conversation, and giving him cigarettes and in fact anything +he would accept. An hour before they had been trying their best to +shoot one another. In one of the attacks on our left the Turks were +badly beaten off and left a lot of their dead close up to our trenches. +As it was not safe to get over and remove the bodies, a number of +boat-hooks were obtained, and with them the bodies were pulled in to +our trenches. One of the "bodies" proved to be a live Turk who had been +unable to get back to his line for fear of being shot by our men. He +was blindfolded and sent down to the compound with the other prisoners. +</p> +<p>The difficulty of obtaining sufficient exercise was very great at +times. We only held a piece of territory under a square mile in extent, +and none of it was free from shell or rifle-fire, so that our +perambulations were carried on under difficulty. Major Meikle and I had +our regular walk before breakfast. At first we went down the beach +towards Gaba Tepe, and then sat for a while talking and trying to see +what we could see; but a sniper apparently used to watch for us, for we +were invariably saluted by the ping of a rifle in the distance and the +dust of the bullet in close proximity to our feet. We concluded that, +if we continued to walk in this direction someone would be getting +hurt, so our walks were altered to the road round "Pluggey's Plateau." +We were seated there one morning when our howitzer in the gully was +fired, and we felt that the shell was not far from where we sat. We +went down to the Battery, and I interrogated some of the gunners. "How +far off the top of that hill does that shell go?" said I. "About a +yard, sir," replied the man; "one time we hit it." I asked him if it +would be convenient for the battery to elevate a bit if we were sitting +there again. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="postoffice"> +POST OFFICE +</a> +</p> +<p>The postal arrangements on the whole were good, considering the +circumstances under which the mails were handled. It was always a +matter of interest for all of us when we saw mail-bags in the barges, +whether or no we were to participate in the good luck of receiving +letters. And here I might make the suggestion to correspondents in +Australia to send as many snap-shot photos. as possible. They tell more +than a letter, for one can see how the loved ones are looking. Papers +were what we needed most, and we got very few indeed of these. I wrote +home once that I was fortunate in having a paper to read that had been +wrapped round greasy bacon. This was a positive fact. We were up the +gully at the advance dressing station, and a machine gun was playing +right down the position. Four men were killed and six wounded right in +front of us, so that it was not prudent to leave until night fell. It +was then that reading matter became so necessary. The paper was the +<i> +Sydney Morning Herald +</i>and contained an advertisement stating that there was a vacancy for +two boarders at Katoomba; I was an applicant for the vacancy. The +<i> +Bulletin +</i> +was a God-send when it arrived, as was +<i> +Punch</i>. Norman Morris occasionally got files of the +<i> +Newcastle Morning Herald</i>, which he would hand on to us, as +there were a lot of men from the Newcastle district in the Ambulance. +Later on it was possible to register a small parcel in the Field Post +Office—for home. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="sanitary"> +SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS +</a> +</p> +<p>In order to keep the health of the troops good it was necessary to +be exceedingly careful in the matter of sanitation. Lieutenant-Colonel +Millard was the Sanitary Officer for our Division, and +Lieutenant-Colonel Stokes for the 1st Australian Division. +</p> +<p>The garbage at first was collected in casks, placed in a barge and +conveyed out into the bay; it was found, however, that a lot of it +drifted back. It reminded one so much of Newcastle and Stockton. The +same complaints were made by the men on the right as are put forth by +Stockton residents regarding the Newcastle garbage. We, of course, +occupied the position of the Newcastle Council, and were just as +vehement in our denial of what was a most obvious fact. The situation +was exactly the same—only that, instead of dead horses, there were dead +mules. Three incinerators were started, enclosures built up with stone, +and a fire lighted. This was effective, but gave rise to a very +unpleasant smell along the beach. The only time I was shot was from an +incinerator; a cartridge had been included in the rubbish and exploded +just as I was passing. The bullet gave me a nasty knock on the shin. +</p> +<p>It was a fairly common practice among men just arrived to put a +cartridge in their fire just to hear the noise. Of course down on the +beach it was not usual to hear a rifle fired at close range, and the +sound would make everybody look up to "see where the —— that came +from." The discovery of the culprit would bring out a chorus from the +working parties: "Give him a popgun, give him a popgun!" "Popgun" was +preceded by the usual Australian expletive. +</p> +<p>The water found on the Peninsula was always subjected to careful +examination, and, before the troops were allowed to use it notices were +placed on each well stating whether the water was to be boiled or if +only to be used for washing. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="simpson"> +SIMPSON +</a> +</p> +<p>Everyone knows of Simpson and his donkey. This man belonged to one +of the other Ambulances, but he made quite frequent trips backwards and +forwards to the trenches, the donkey always carrying a wounded man. +Simpson was frequently warned of the danger he ran, for he never +stopped, no matter how heavy the firing was. His invariable reply was +"My troubles!" The brave chap was killed in the end. His donkey was +afterwards taken over by Johnstone, one of our men, who improvised +stirrups out of the stretcher-slings, and conveyed many wounded in this +manner. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="church"> +CHURCH SERVICES +</a> +</p> +<p>No account of the war would be complete without some mention of the +good work of the chaplains. They did their work nobly, and gave the +greatest assistance to the bearers in getting the wounded down. I came +into contact chiefly with those belonging to our own Brigade. Colonel +Green, Colonel Wray, and Captain Gillitson; the latter was killed while +trying to get one of our men who had been wounded. Services were held +whenever possible, and sometimes under very peculiar circumstances. +Once service was being conducted in the gully when a platoon was +observed coming down the opposite hill in a position exposed to rifle +fire. The thoughts of the audience were at once distracted from what +the Padre was expounding by the risk the platoon was running; and +members of the congregation pointed out the folly of such conduct, +emphasizing their remarks by all the adjectives in the Australian +vocabulary. Suddenly a shell burst over the platoon and killed a few +men. After the wounded had been cared for, the Padre regained the +attention of his congregation and gave out the last verse of "Praise +God from Whom all blessings flow." There was one man for whom I had a +great admiration—a clergyman in civil life but a stretcher-bearer on +the Peninsula—Private Greig McGregor. He belonged to the 1st Field +Ambulance, and I frequently saw him. He always had a stretcher, either +carrying a man or going for one, and in his odd moments he cared for +the graves of those who were buried on Hell Spit. The neatness of many +of them was due to his kindly thought. He gained the D.C.M., and richly +deserved it. +</p> +<p>All the graves were looked after by the departed one's chums. Each +was adorned with the Corps' emblems: thus the Artillery used shell +caps, the Army Medical Corps a Red Cross in stone, etc. +</p> +<p class="ctr"> <img src="images/06.jpg" alt="Mules in a Gully." height="540" width="396"> +</p> +<p class="imgcaption"> +Mules in a Gully. +</p> +<p class="ctr"> <img src="images/07.jpg" alt="Graves of Major Ellis and Lieut.-Col. Braund." height="508" width="394"> +</p> +<p class="imgcaption"> +Graves of Major Ellis and Lieut.-Col. Braund. +</p> +<p class="ctr"> <img src="images/08.jpg" alt="Wounded being placed on Hospital Ship." height="506" width="375"> +</p> +<p class="imgcaption"> +Wounded being placed on Hospital Ship. +</p> +<p class="ctr"> <img src="images/09.jpg" alt="Stretcher Bearers carrying Col. Cox." height="505" width="390"> +</p> +<p class="imgcaption"> +Stretcher Bearers carrying Col. Cox. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="engineers"> +THE ENGINEERS +</a> +</p> +<p>The Engineers did wonderfully good work, and to a layman their +ingenuity was most marked. Piers were made out of all sorts of things; +for instance, a boat would be sunk and used as a buttress, then planks +put over it for a wharf. They built a very fine pier which was +afterwards named Watson's. Again, the "monkey" of a pile driver they +erected was formed out of an unexploded shell from the +<i> +Goeben</i>. This warship, a German cruiser taken over by the +Turks, was in the Sea of Marmora, and occasionally the Commander in a +fit of German humour would fire a few shells over Gallipoli neck into +the bay—a distance of about eight or nine miles. As soon as the +<i> +Goeben +</i> +began firing, one of our aeroplanes would go up, and shortly afterwards the +<i> +Queen Elizabeth +</i> +could be seen taking up a position on our side of the Peninsula, and loosing off. Whether she hit the +<i> +Goeben +</i> +or not we never heard. It was +<i> +Mafeesh</i>. +</p> +<p>The Engineers also made miles upon miles of roads and, furthermore, +created the nucleus of a water storage. A number of large tanks from +Egypt were placed high up on "Pluggey's," whence the water was +reticulated into the far distant gullies. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="attack"> +TURKS ATTACK +</a> +</p> +<p>One night in May the Turks made a fierce attack on us, apparently +determined to carry out their oft-repeated threat of driving us into +the sea. The shells just rained down over our gully, lighting up the +dug-outs with each explosion. It was like Hell let loose. Word came up +from the beach station that they were full of casualties and on getting +down there one found that the situation had not been over-estimated. +The whole beach was filled with stretchers, the only light being that +from bursting shells. We worked hard all night operating and dressing, +and when one had time to think, one's thoughts generally took the shape +of wondering how the men were keeping the Turks off. It was useless to +be sentimental, although many of my friends were amongst those injured; +the work just had to be done in the best way possible. +</p> +<p>One night a strong wind got up, just like our "Southerly Busters," +and in the middle of it all firing began on our left. I heard that the +Turks nearly got into the trenches, but they were beaten off and rolled +right round the position—passed on, as it were, from battalion to +battalion. +</p> +<p>It was very interesting to watch the warships bombarding Turkish +positions. One ship, attacking Achi Baba, used to fire her broadside, +and on the skyline six clouds would appear at regular intervals, for +all the world like windmills. On another occasion I watched two ships +bombarding the same hill a whole afternoon. One would think there was +not a square yard left untouched, and each shot seemed to lift half the +hill. Twenty minutes after they had ceased firing, a battery of guns +came out from somewhere and fired in their turn. They must have been in +a tunnel to have escaped that inferno. One day we were up on +"Pluggey's" while our beach was being shelled; at last the stack of +ammunition caught fire and was blazing fiercely until some of the men +got buckets and quenched the fire with sea water most courageously. +Later a shell landed among a lot of dug-outs. There was quietness for a +bit; then one man began scraping at the disturbed earth, then another; +finally about six of them were shovelling earth away; at last a man +appeared with his birthday suit for his only attire. He ran like a hare +for the next gully, amid the yells of laughter of all who witnessed the +occurrence. I think he had been swimming, and being disturbed by +"Beachy," had run for a dug-out only to be buried by the shell. +</p> +<p>That was the extraordinary thing about our soldiers. Shelling might +be severe and searching, but only if a man was hit was it taken +seriously. In that case a yell went up for stretcher-bearers; if it was +a narrow squeak, then he was only laughed at. +</p> +<p>That beach at times was the most unhealthy place in the Peninsula. +Men frequently said they would sooner go back to the trenches. One day +we had five killed and twenty-five wounded. Yet, had Johnny Turk been +aware of it, he could have made the place quite untenable. I saw one +shell get seven men who were standing in a group. The effect was +remarkable. All screwed themselves up before falling. They were all +lightly wounded. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="redcross"> +RED CROSS +</a> +</p> +<p>About the middle of July I sent a corporal and two men over to +Heliopolis with a letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Barrett, asking for some +Red Cross goods. I had already received issue vouchers for two lots, +but these had been intercepted in transit, so the men were ordered to +sit on the cases until they gave delivery to the Ambulance. Fifty cases +came, filled with pyjamas, socks, shirts, soap and all sorts of things. +The day they arrived was very, very hot, and our hospital was full of +men whose uniform had not been off since they landed. No time was lost +in getting into the pyjamas, and the contented look on the men's faces +would have gratified the ladies who worked so hard for the Red Cross. +Talk about peace and contentment—they simply lolled about in the scrub +smoking cigarettes, and I don't believe they would have changed places +with a Federal Senator. +</p> +<p>Those Red Cross goods saved one man's life at least. All the +unopened cases were placed outside the tent. One afternoon a shell came +over into a case of jam, went through it, and then into another +containing socks. A man was lying under the shelter of this box, but +the socks persuaded the shell to stay with them, and thus his life was +saved. It was on this day that my nephew, Staff-Sergeant Nickson, was +wounded. He had just left his dug-out to go to the dressing station on +the beach when a shrapnel shell severely wounded him in the leg. The +same shell killed Staff-Sergeant Gordon, a solicitor from Adelaide, and +one of the finest characters I knew. He was shot through the spine and +killed instantly. Two other men were wounded. +</p> +<p>Our Ambulance was ordered to pitch a hospital up Canterbury Gully to +provide for a possible outbreak of cholera, as almost every writer on +the subject stated that, when European troops occupied trenches that +had been previously held by Turks, an outbreak of cholera invariably +followed. Major Clayton was detailed for the work, and soon had +accommodation for a hundred men. As there was no cholera, the sick men +were kept here. We had been so long in this place without a change, and +so many troops were crowded into such a small area, without a +possibility of real rest, that the men began to get very stale. +Sickness was prevalent, and this hospital seemed to help them a great +deal. It was a picture to see them all lying in their pyjamas reading +the +<i> +Bulletin +</i> +and +<i> +Punch</i>, and swapping lies. +</p> +<p>The New Zealanders held a concert here one night. Major Johnston, +the O.C., filled the position of chairman, the chair being a cask. One +man with a cornet proved a good performer; several others sang, while +some gave recitations. We all sat round in various places in the gully, +and joined in the choruses. It was very enjoyable while it lasted; but, +as darkness came on, rifle-fire began on the tops of the surrounding +hills—also, occasionally, shell fire. This completely drowned the sound +of the performers' voices, and the concert had to be brought to a +close; Abdul had counted us out. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="advance"> +PREPARING FOR THE ADVANCE +</a> +</p> +<p>Towards the end of July great preparations were made for an +offensive movement, the object being to take Hill 971 and so turn the +Turk's right. Large platforms were dug out of the hillsides in Monash +Gully, each capable of holding three to five hundred men; they were +constructed well below the sky line, and were fairly secure from shell +fire. On these the incoming battalions were placed. There was not much +room for sleep, but the main object seemed to be to have as many men +handy as possible. The Turks seemed to be aware of the influx of +troops, as they shelled the whole position almost all night. The beach, +of course, was attended to most fervently, but considering the numbers +of men landing few casualties occurred. +</p> +<p>A 4.7 naval gun, which, I understand, had served in the relief of +Ladysmith, was swathed in bags and landed on a barge, which conveyed it +to a position alongside the pier. A party was put on to make a shield +on the pier of boxes of our faithful friends the "forty-niners," in +case there were any Turks of an enquiring turn of mind along the beach +towards Suvla. +</p> +<p>The Engineers then constructed a landing place, and the gun was +hauled ashore, again covered up, and conveyed to its position on our +right during the night. General Birdwood outwitted the Turks that time, +as they did not fire a shot during the whole operation. +</p> +<p>On the third of August we received orders to remove to the left +flank, the right being held by the Australian Division which +participated in the operation known afterwards as Lone Pine. The last +day on the beach proved to be pretty hot with shelling, chiefly from +Beachy Bill. A number of pinnaces were busy all day towing in barges +from the transports, and this could be easily seen from the olive grove +where Bill had his lair. At one time the shells came over like rain; +two of the pinnaces were hit below the water-line, and were in imminent +danger of sinking. Through all the shelling Commander Cater ran along +the pier to give some direction regarding the pinnaces, but was killed +before he got there. He was a brave man, and always very courteous and +considerate. +</p> +<p>Our casualties during this afternoon were pretty considerable, and +our stretcher-bearers were constantly on the "go" getting men under +shelter. +</p> +<p>Early in the morning the Ghurkas came ashore, but the Turks spotted +them, and gave them a cordial welcome to Anzac. They are a small-sized +set of men, very dark (almost black), with Mongol type of face and very +stolid. One was killed while landing. They were evidently not +accustomed to shell-fire, and at first were rather scared, but were +soon reassured when we told them where to stand in safety. Each carried +in addition to his rifle a Kukri—a heavy, sharp knife, shaped something +like a reaping-hook, though with a curve not quite so pronounced. It +was carried in a leather case, and was as keen as a razor. I believe +the Ghurkas' particular delight is to use it in lopping off arms at the +shoulder-joint. As events turned out we were to see a good deal of +these little chaps, and to appreciate their fighting qualities. +</p> +<p>The 2nd Field Ambulance was to take our position on the beach. We +packed up our panniers and prepared to leave the spot where we had done +so much work during the last three months, and where we had been the +unwilling recipients of so much attention from Beachy Bill and his +friend Windy Annie. Our donkeys carried the panniers, and each man took +his own wardrobe. Even in a place like this one collects rubbish, just +as at home, and one had to choose just what he required to take away; +in some cases this was very little, for each had to be his own beast of +burden. Still, with our needs reduced to the minimum, we looked rather +like walking Christmas-trees. The distance to Rest Gully was about a +mile and a half, through saps and over very rough cobble-stones, and +our household goods and chattels became heavy indeed before we halted; +I know mine did. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="attempt"> +THE ATTEMPT ON SARI BAIR +</a> +</p> +<p>Our Ambulance was attached to the Left Assaulting Column, which +consisted of the 29th Indian Brigade, 4th Australian Infantry Brigade, +Mountain Battery and one company of New Zealand Engineers under +Brigadier-General Cox. +</p> +<p>The commanding officers of all the ambulances in General Godley's +Division met in the gully and had the operation orders explained to +them by the A.D.M.S. of the Division, Colonel Manders, a very capable +officer. To my great regret he was killed two days later; we had been +acquainted for some time, and I had a great regard for him. +</p> +<p>The 4th Infantry Brigade was to operate in what was known as the +Aghyl Dere (Dere in Turkish means "gully"). The operation order gave +out that we were to establish our Field Hospital in such a position as +to be readily accessible for the great number of wounded we expected. +Meantime, after making all arrangements for the move and ascertaining +that each man knew his job exactly, we sat about for a while. The +bombardment was to commence at 5 p.m. Precisely at that hour the +<i> +Bacchante +</i>opened fire, the howitzers and our field guns co-operating, the +Turks making a hearty response. The din was frightful. To make a man +sitting beside me hear what I was saying, I had to shout at the top of +my voice. However, there were not many men hit. We had tea—for which +Walkley had got three eggs from somewhere, the first I had tasted since +leaving Egypt. We tried to get some sleep, but that was impossible, the +noise being so great; it was hard, too, to know where one was safe from +bullets. Mr. Tute, the Quartermaster, and I got a dug-out fairly well +up the hill, and turned in. We had not been long there when a +machine-gun appeared to be trained right on to us—bullets were coming +in quantities. It was pitch-dark, so we waited until they stopped, and +then got further down the gully and tried to sleep there—but this +particular dug-out had more than ourselves in it, and we passed the +night hunting for things. The Division started to march out just after +dark, the 4th Brigade leading. It was almost daylight before the rear +of the column passed the place at which we were waiting. The men were +all in great spirits, laughing and chaffing and giving the usual "Are +we down'earted?". I think those men would laugh if they were going to +be hanged. Our bearer divisions, in charge respectively of Captains +Welch, Jeffries and Kenny, followed in rear of the Brigade, while the +tent divisions came in rear of the whole column. +</p> +<p>Major Meikle and I had often, like Moses viewing the Land of +Promise, looked at the country over which the fight was now to take +place—a stretch of flats about three miles long, from the beach up to +the foot of the hills. As the day broke, we found a transformation at +Nibronesi Point, which is the southernmost part of Suvla Bay. At +nightfall not a ship was there; now there was a perfect forest of +masts. The place looked like Siberia in Newcastle when there was a +strike on. I counted ten transports, seven battle-cruisers, fourteen +destroyers, twelve trawlers and a lot of pinnaces. These had landed the +force which was afterwards known as the Suvla Bay Army. A balloon ship +and five hospital ships were also at anchor in the bay. As we passed +what was known as our No. 3 Outpost, we came across evidences of the +fight—dead men, dead mules, equipment, ammunition boxes and rifles +lying all over the place. We noted, too, little hillocks of sand here +and there, from behind which the Turks had fired at our column. It was +evident that our men had soon got in touch with the enemy and had +driven him back. The Aghyl Dere proved to be a fairly wide gully with +steep hills on either side. A little distance, about three quarters of +a mile up, we came to what had been the Turkish Brigade Headquarters. +Here everything was as they had left it. The surprise had been +complete, and we had given them very short notice to quit. Clothing, +rifles, equipment, copper pans and boilers were in abundance, and it +was evident that Abdul makes war with regard to every comfort, for +there were visible also sundry articles of wearing apparel only used by +the gentler sex. The men had comfortable bivouacs and plenty of +bed-clothing of various patterns. The camp was situated in a hollow, +round in shape and about a hundred yards in diameter, with dug-outs in +the surrounding hillsides; all was very clean, except for the fleas, of +which a good assortment remained. The dug-outs were roofed in with +waterproof sheets, buttoned together and held up by pegs which fitted +into one another. These sheets, with the poles, made handy bivouac +shelters, easily pitched and struck. Altogether, their camp equipment +was better than ours. +</p> +<p>We annexed all the pans and boilers and made good use of them for +our own Ambulance. Then, proceeding further up the gully, we found it +almost impassable by reason of dead Ghurkas and mules; a gun on a ridge +had the range of this place to a nicety, and the ammunition train was +held up for a time. I never saw such a mess of entangled mules; they +were kicking and squealing, many of them were wounded, and through it +all the Indian drivers were endeavouring to restore some kind of order. +One had to keep close under the banks to escape the shells. Not far +from here was the emplacement of our old friend "Windy Annie," but +alas! Annie was constant to Abdul, and they had taken her with them. It +was a great pity we did not get the gun. No wonder our guns never found +the place. The ground had been dug out to some depth and then roofed +over with great logs and covered with earth and sandbags; the +ammunition—plenty of it—was in deep pits on either side; artillery +quarters were in close proximity, and the tracks of the gun were +clearly seen. +</p> +<p>The shelling was far too heavy to let us pitch a dressing station +anywhere here, so we retired to the beach to find a place more +sheltered under the hills; the bearers meanwhile followed the troops. +Soon scores of casualties began to arrive, and we selected a position +in a dry creek about six yards wide, with high banks on either side. +The operating tent was used as a protection from the sun and stretched +from bank to bank, the centre being upheld by rifles lashed together; +the panniers were used to form the operating table, and our drugs were +placed round the banks. We were, however, much handicapped by not +having any transport, as our donkeys had been requisitioned by the Army +Service Corps. Everything had to be carried from a distance, and water +was exceedingly scarce. All day we were treating cases and operating +until late at night. Major Meikle and I divided the night, and we were +kept going. From one until four in the morning I slept in a hole in a +trench like a tomb. +</p> +<p>At daylight we could see our men righting their way through the +scrub over Sari Bair, the warships firing just ahead of them to clear +the scrub of the Turkish Infantry. The foremost men carried flags, +which denoted the farthest point reached and the extent of the two +flanks, as a direction to the ship. With the glasses one could see that +the bayonet was being used pretty freely; the Turks were making a great +stand, and we were losing a lot of men. They could be seen falling +everywhere. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="ambulance"> +AMBULANCE WORK +</a> +</p> +<p>Our bearers were doing splendid work; it was a long and dangerous +carry, and a lot of them were wounded themselves. The miserable part of +the affair was that the Casualty Clearing Station on the beach broke +down and could not evacuate our wounded. This caused a block, and we +had numbers of wounded on our hands. A block of a few hours can be +dealt with, but when it is impossible to get cases away for forty hours +the condition of the men is very miserable. However, we got the cooks +going, and had plenty of Bovril and Oxo, which we boiled up with +biscuits broken small. It made a very sustaining meal, but caused +thirst, which was troublesome, as it was particularly difficult to +obtain water. Shelter from the sun, too, was hard to get; the day was +exceedingly hot, and there were only a few trees about. As many as +could be got into the shade were put there, but we had to keep moving +them round to avoid the sun. Many of the cases were desperate, but they +uttered not a word of complaint—they all seemed to understand that it +was not our fault that they were kept here. +</p> +<p>As the cases were treated by us, they were taken down towards the +beach and kept under cover as much as possible. At one time we had +nearly four hundred waiting for removal to the ship. Then came a +message asking for more stretchers to be sent to the firing line, and +none were to be obtained; so we just had to remove the wounded from +those we had, lay them on the ground, and send the stretchers up. Thank +goodness, we had plenty of morphia, and the hypodermic syringe relieved +many who would otherwise have suffered great agony. +</p> +<p>Going through the cases, I found one man who had his arm shattered +and a large wound in his chest. Amputation at the shoulder-joint was +the only way of saving his life. Major Clayton gave the anaesthetic, +and we got him through. +</p> +<p>Quite a number of Ghurkas and Sikhs were amongst the wounded, and +they all seemed to think that it was part of the game; patience loomed +large among their virtues. Turkish wounded were also on our hands, and, +though they could not speak our language, still they expressed +gratitude with their eyes. One of the Turks was interrogated, first by +the Turkish interpreter with no result; the Frenchman then had a go at +him, and still nothing could be got out of him. After these two had +finished, Captain Jefferies went over to the man and said, "Would you +like a drink of water?" "Yes, please," was the reply. +</p> +<p>During one afternoon, after we had been in this place for three days, a battalion + crossed the ground between us and the beach. This brought the Turkish guns into + action immediately, and we got the time of our lives. We had reached a stage + when we regarded ourselves as fair judges of decent shell-fire, and could give + an unbiassed opinion on the point, but—to paraphrase Kipling—what + we knew before was "Pop" to what we now had to swallow. The shells simply rained + on us, shrapnel all the time; of course our tent was no protection as it consisted + simply of canvas, and the only thing to do was to keep under the banks as much + as possible. We were jammed full of wounded in no time. Men rushing into the + gully one after another, and even a company of infantry tried to take shelter + there; but that, of course, could not be allowed. We had our Geneva Cross flag + up, and their coming there only drew fire. </p> +<p class="ctr"><img src="images/10.jpg" width="374" height="510" alt="Getting Wounded off after a Fight."></p> +<p class="imgcaption">Getting Wounded off after a Fight.</p> +<p class="ctr"><img src="images/11.jpg" width="394" height="512" alt="Water Carts protected by Sand Bags"></p> +<p class="imgcaption">Water Carts protected by Sand Bags</p> +<p class="ctr"><img src="images/12.jpg" width="394" height="514" alt="Burial Parties during the Armistice."></p> +<p class="imgcaption">Burial Parties during the Armistice.</p> +<p class="ctr"><img src="images/13.jpg" width="394" height="519" alt="Simpson and his Donkey"></p> +<p class="imgcaption">Simpson and his Donkey</p> + + +<p>In three-quarters of an hour we put through fifty-four cases. Many +bearers were hit, and McGowen and Threlfall of the 1st Light Horse +Field Ambulance were killed. Seven of our tent division were wounded. +One man reported to me that he had been sent as a reinforcement, had +been through Samoa, and had just arrived in Gallipoli. While he was +speaking, he sank quietly down without a sound. A bullet had come over +my shoulder into his heart. That was another instance of the fortune of +war. Many men were hit, either before they landed or soon after, while +others could go months with never a scratch. From 2 till 7 p.m. we +dealt with 142 cases. +</p> +<p>This shelling lasted for an hour or more, and when it subsided a +party of men arrived with a message from Divisional Headquarters. They +had been instructed to remove as many of the Ambulance as were alive. +Headquarters, it appears, had been watching the firing. We lost very +little time in leaving, and for the night we dossed down in the scrub a +mile further along the beach, where we were only exposed to the fire of +spent bullets coming over the hills. Our fervent prayer was that we had +said good-bye to shells. +</p> +<p>The new position was very nice; it had been a farm—in fact the +plough was still there, made of wood, no iron being used in its +construction. Blackberries, olives, and wild thyme grew on the place, +and also a kind of small melon. We did not eat any; we thought we were +running enough risks already; but the cooks used the thyme to flavour +the bovril, and it was a nice addition. +</p> +<p>Not far from us something happened that was for all the world like +an incident described by Zola in his "Dčbacle," when during the +bombardment before Sedan a man went on ploughing in a valley with a +white horse, while an artillery duel continued over his head. Precisely +the same thing occurred here—the only difference being that here a man +persisted in looking after his cattle, while the guns were firing over +his head. +</p> +<p>Walkley and Betts proved ingenious craftsmen. They secured two +wheels left by the Signalling Corps, and on these fastened a stretcher; +out of a lot of the web equipment lying about they made a set of +harness; two donkeys eventuated from somewhere, and with this +conveyance quite a lot of transport was done. Water and rations were +carried as well, and the saving to our men was great. Goodness knows +the bearers were already sufficiently worked carrying wounded. +</p> +<p> +The +<i> +Bacchante +</i>did some splendid firing, right into the trenches every time. With +one shot, amongst the dust and earth, a Turk went up about thirty feet: +arms and legs extended, his body revolving like a catherine wheel. One +saw plenty of limbs go up at different times, but this was the only +time when I saw a man go aloft +<i> +in extenso</i>. +</p> +<p>It was while we were in this position that W.O. Henderson was hit; +the bullet came through the tent, through another man's arm and into +Mr. Henderson. He was a serious loss to the Ambulance, as since its +inception he had had sole charge of everything connected with the +supply of drugs and dressings, and I missed his services very much. +</p> +<p>We were now being kept very busy and had little time for rest, +numbers of cases being brought down. Our table was made of four biscuit +boxes, on which were placed the stretchers. We had to be very sparing +of water, as all had to be carried. The donkey conveyance was kept +constantly employed. Whenever that party left we used to wonder whether +they would return, for one part of the road was quite exposed to fire; +but Betts and Walkley both pulled through. +</p> +<p>One night I had just turned in at nine-thirty, when Captain Welch +came up to say that a bad casualty had come in, and so many came in +afterwards that it was three o'clock in the following morning before I +had finished operating. While in the middle of the work I looked up and +found G. Anschau holding the lantern. He belonged to the 1st Field +Ambulance, but had come over to our side to give any assistance he +could. He worked like a Trojan. +</p> +<p>We still had our swim off the beach from this position. It will be a +wonderful place for tourists after the war is over. For Australians +particularly it will have an unbounded interest. The trenches where the +men fought will be visible for a long time, and there will be trophies +to be picked up for years to come. All along the flat land by the beach +there are sufficient bullets to start a lead factory. Then searching +among the gullies will give good results. We came across the Turkish +Quartermaster's store, any quantity of coats and boots and bully beef. +The latter was much more palatable than ours. +</p> +<p>Our men had a novel way of fishing; they threw a bomb into the +water, and the dead fish would either float and be caught or go to the +bottom—in which case the water was so clear that they were easily seen. +Wilson brought me two, something like a mackerel, that were delicious. +</p> +<p>As there was still a good deal of delay in getting the cases off, +our tent was brought over from Canterbury Gully and pitched on the +beach; the cooks keeping the bovril and biscuits going. We could not +maintain it there long, however, as the Turks' rifle-fire was too +heavy, so the evacuation was all done from Walker's Ridge about two +miles away. The Casualty Clearing Station here (the 16th) was a totally +different proposition from the other one. Colonel Corkery was +commanding officer, and knew his job. His command was exceedingly well +administered, and there was no further occasion to fear any block in +getting our wounded off. +</p> +<p>Amongst the men who came in to be dressed was one wounded in the +leg. The injury was a pretty bad one, though the bone was not +fractured. The leg being uncovered, the man sat up to look at it. He +exclaimed "Eggs a cook! I thought it was only a scratch!" +</p> +<p>Our bearers did great work here, Sergeant Baber being in charge and +the guiding spirit amongst them. Carberry from Western Australia proved +his worth in another manner. The 4th Brigade were some distance up the +gully and greatly in want of water. Carberry seems to have the knack of +divining, for he selected a spot where water was obtained after +sinking. General Monash drew my attention to this, and Carberry was +recommended for the D.C.M. +</p> +<p>Early in August, soon after Colonel Manders was killed, I was +promoted to his position as Assistant Director of Medical Services, or, +as it is usually written, A.D.M.S. On this I relinquished command of +the 4th Field Ambulance, and though I appreciated the honour of the +promotion yet I was sorry to leave the Ambulance. We had been together +so long, and through so much, and every member of it was of such +sterling worth, that when the order came for me to join Headquarters I +must say that my joy was mingled with regret. Everyone—officers, +non-commissioned officers and men—had all striven to do their level +best, and had succeeded. With one or two exceptions it was our first +experience on active service, but all went through their work like +veterans. General Godley, in whose division we were, told me how +pleased he was with the work of the Ambulance and how proud he was to +have them in his command. The Honour list was quite sufficient to +satisfy any man. We got one D.S.O., two D.C.M.s, and sixteen "Mentioned +in Despatches." Many more deserved recognition, but then all can't get +it. +</p> +<p>Major Meikle took charge, and I am sure the same good work will be +done under his command. Captain Dawson came over with me as D.A.D.M.S. +He had been Adjutant from the start until the landing, when he "handed +over" to Captain Finn, D.S.O., who was the dentist. Major Clayton had +charge of C Section; Captains Welch, Jeffries and Kenny were the +officers in charge of the Bearer Divisions. Jeffries and Kenny were +both wounded. Captain B. Finn, of Perth, Western Australia, was a +specialist in eye and ear diseases. Mr. Cosgrove was the Quartermaster, +and Mr. Baber the Warrant Officer; Sergeant Baxter was the Sergeant +Clerk. To mention any of the men individually would be invidious. They +were as fine a set of men as one would desire to command. In fact, the +whole Ambulance was a very happy family, all doing their bit and doing +it well. +</p> +<p>On the 21st of August an attack was made on what were know as the W +Hills—so named from their resemblance to that letter of the alphabet. +Seated on a hill one had a splendid view of the battle. First the +Australians went forward over some open ground at a slow double with +bayonets fixed, not firing a shot; the Turks gave them shrapnel and +rifle-fire, but very few fell. They got right up to the first Turkish +trench, when all the occupants turned out and retired with more speed +than elegance. Still our men went on, taking a few prisoners and +getting close to the hills, over which they disappeared from my view. +Next, a battalion from Suvla came across as supports. The Turks +meanwhile had got the range to a nicety; the shrapnel was bursting +neatly and low and spreading beautifully—it was the best Turkish +shooting I had seen. The battalion was rather badly cut up, but a +second body came across in more open order than the others, and well +under the control of their officers; they took advantage of cover, and +did not lose so many men. The fight was more like those one sees in the +illustrated papers than any hitherto—shells bursting, men falling, and +bearers going out for the wounded. The position was gained and held, +but there was plenty of work for the Ambulance. +</p> +<p>There were very few horses on the Peninsula, and those few belonged +to the Artillery. But at the time I speak of we had one attached to the +New Zealand and Australian Headquarters, to be used by the despatch +rider. Anzac, the Headquarters of General Birdwood, was about two and a +half miles away; and, being a true Australian, the despatch-carrier +declined to walk when he could ride, so he rode every day with +despatches. Part of the journey had to be made across a position open +to fire from Walker's Ridge. We used to watch for the man every day, +and make bets whether he would be hit. Directly he entered the fire +zone, he started as if he were riding in the Melbourne Cup, sitting low +in the saddle, while the bullets kicked up dust all round him. One day +the horse returned alone, and everyone thought the man had been hit at +last; but in about an hour's time he walked in. The saddle had slipped, +and he came off and rolled into a sap, whence he made his way to us on +foot. +</p> +<p>When going through the trenches it is not a disadvantage to be small +of stature. It is not good form to put one's head over the sandbags; +the Turks invariably objected, and even entered their protest against +periscopes, which are very small in size. Numbers of observers were cut +about the face and a few lost their eyes through the mirror at the top +being smashed by a bullet. On one occasion I was in a trench which the +men were making deeper. A rise in the bottom of it just enabled me, by +standing on it, to peer through the loophole. On commending the man for +leaving this lump, he replied, "That's a dead Turk, sir!" +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="artillery"> +ARTILLERY +</a> +</p> +<p>Watching the Field Artillery firing is very interesting. I went one +day with General Johnstone of the New Zealand Artillery to Major +Standish's Battery, some distance out on the left, and the observing +station was reached through a long sap. It was quite close to the +Turk's trenches, close enough to see the men's faces. All directions +were given by telephone, and an observer placed on another hill gave +the result of the shot—whether under, over, or to the right or left. +Errors were corrected and the order to fire again given, the target +meanwhile being quite out of sight of the battery commander. +</p> +<p>It was amusing to hear the heated arguments between the Artillery +and Infantry, in which the latter frequently and vehemently asseverated +that they "could have taken the sanguinary place only our own Artillery +fired on them." They invariably supported these arguments by the +production of pieces of shell which had "blanky near put their +Australian adjective lights out." Of course the denials of the +Artillery under these accusations were very emphatic; but the +production of the shell-fragments was awkward evidence, and it was hard +to prove an alibi. +</p> +<p> +The advent of the hospital ship +<i> +Maheno +</i>resulted in a pleasant addition to our dietary, as the officers +sent ashore some butter, fresh bread and a case of apples. The butter +was the first I had tasted for four and a half months. The +<i> +Maheno +</i>belonged to the Union Company, and had been fitted up as a hospital +ship under the command of Colonel Collins. He was the essence of +hospitality, and a meal on board there was a dream. +</p> +<p>While we were away along the beach for a swim one afternoon, the +Turks began shelling our quarters. It had not happened previously, and +everyone thought we were out of range. The firing lasted for about an +hour and a half. I fully expected that the whole place would be +smashed. On the contrary, beyond a few mules and three men hit, nothing +had happened, and there was little in the ground to show the effects of +the firing. (I noticed the same with regard to the firing of the naval +guns. They appeared to lift tons of earth, but when one traversed the +position later very little alteration could be detected.) The Turks, +however started at night again, and one shot almost buried me in my +dug-out. +</p> +<p>The number of transports that came in and out of Anzac while we were +there was marvellous, and a great tribute to the British Navy. There is +no question as to who is Mistress of the Sea. Occasionally we heard of +one being torpedoed, but considering the number constantly going to and +fro those lost were hardly noticeable. The +<i> +Southland +</i>was torpedoed while we were in Gallipoli, and Major Millard (who +was on board) told me that there was not the slightest confusion, and +only one life was lost. +</p> +<p class="chapter"> +<a name="fighters"> +TURKS AS FIGHTERS +</a> +</p> +<p>One cannot conclude these reminiscences without paying a tribute to +Abdul as a fighting man. All I know about him is in his favour. We have +heard all about his atrocities and his perfidy and unspeakablenesses, +but the men we met fought fairly and squarely; and as for atrocities it +is always well to hear the other side of the question. At the beginning +of the campaign it was commonly reported that the Turks mutilated our +wounded. Now I believe that to be an unmitigated lie, probably given a +start by men who had never set foot in the Peninsula—or who, if they +did, had taken an early opportunity of departure. We were in a position +to know whether any mutilation had occurred, and I certainly saw none. +I believe that similar reports were existent among the Turks regarding +us, and I formed that opinion from the attitude and behaviour of one of +the prisoners when I went to dress his wound. He uttered most piteous +cries and his conduct led me to believe that he thought he was to be +illtreated. I have mentioned before the class to which most of the +prisoners were. They were always most grateful for any kindness shown +them. +</p> +<p> +As to their sense of fair play, when the +<i> +Triumph +</i>was sunk, they never fired on her—though I understand it would have +been quite allowable directly the men set foot on another warship. +Again, about a fortnight after the landing at Anzac, we tried to land a +force at Gaba Tepe, but had to retire and leave our wounded. The Turks +signalled us to bring them off, and then they never fired or abused the +white flag. The third instance occurred on our left, when we made the +advance in August. Our Ambulance was under a hill, and a howitzer +battery took up a position just in front. The Turk +<i> +sent word +</i> +that either the Ambulance or the battery would have to move, otherwise they would be forced to fire on the Ambulance. +</p> +<p>The shells we got on the beach could not be attributed to any +disregard of the Red Cross, for they could not see the flag, and +moreover the Ordnance was next to us, a thing utterly out of order, but +unavoidable under the circumstances. +</p> +<p>My career on the Peninsula came to a close at the end of September, +when I fell ill and was put on the hospital ship. The same evening a +very willing attack was put up by the Turk. One had a good and most +interesting view, as one was in perfect safety. The bursting shells in +the darkness were very picturesque. +</p> +<p>Prior to going off we had often discussed the pleasure of getting +between sheets and into a decent bed—how one would curl up and enjoy +it. But my first night under those conditions was spent in tossing +about, without a wink of sleep. It was too quiet. Being accustomed to +be lulled to sleep by the noise of six-inch guns from a destroyer going +over my dug-out, I could now hear a pin drop, and it was far too quiet. +We found we were to be sent to England. Malta was no place in which to +get rid of Mediterranean fever. The treatment the people of England +give the Australians is handsome in the extreme. They cannot do enough +to make them comfortable. Country houses are thrown open to the +invalided men, perfect strangers though they are, and all are welcome. +</p> +<p>Together with Major Courtenay (with whom I came over) I was taken to +Lockleys, in Hertfordshire. Sir Evelyn and Lady de La Rue had a +standing invitation at Horseferry Road, the Australian Military +Headquarters, for six officers. We happened to be among the lucky ones +to be included, and the kindness I received from our host and hostess +will be remembered during the remainder of my life. +</p> +<p> + +</p> +<hr class="long"> +<p> + +</p> +<h2> +<span class="sc"> +Catalogue of Books +</span> +</h2> +<p> + +</p> +<p class="ctr"> +PUBLISHED BY +</p> +<p class="ctr"> +ANGUS & ROBERTSON +</p> +<p class="ctr"> +LIMITED +</p> +<p class="ctr"> +PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY +<br> +89 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY +</p> +<p> + +</p> +<p class="noindent">The books in this Catalogue may be obtained through +any Bookseller in Australia, New Zealand and all other English-speaking +Countries. +</p> +<p class="noindent">Intending purchasers are requested to write direct +to the publishers if they have any difficulty in obtaining the books +required. +</p> +<p class="noindent">English and Foreign trade orders should be sent to +the publishers whose names appear in the body of the Catalogue; where +no other name appears, they should be sent to the Oxford University +Press, Amen Corner, London, E.C. +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +The costs of postage stated herein apply only to the Commonwealth of Australia. +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +February, 1916. +</i> +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +Just published. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +THE SONGS OF A SENTIMENTAL BLOKE. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By C.J. Dennis. Tenth thousand. With 14 full-page Drawings by Hal Gye and Foreword by Henry Lawson. Cloth, 3s. 6d. +</p> +<p class="noindent">THE BULLETIN (Sydney): "'The Songs of a Sentimental +Bloke' is the most typically Australian book published for a decade. +Its humour, its sentiment, its genuine humanity, are expressed with +feeling and an assured poetic craftsmanship. C.J. Dennis is not only an +Australian poet: he +<i> +is +</i> +a poet." +</p> +<p class="noindent">SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: "Bill is a wholly delightful +person, and from what he tells us of Doreen, she must be equally +delightful ... Mr. Hal Gye's illustrations deserve mention; their idea +is distinctly original, and the scheme is carried out cleverly." +</p> +<p class="noindent">DAILY TELEGRAPH (Sydney): "Captivatingly fresh and +original ... The verse is very human and clean, and its appeal is +universal, for it depicts the simple emotions that are not confined to +the class that uses dialect ... Sure to be popular, because it has the +qualities of humour and lifelikeness. Also the feeling in it rings +true." +</p> +<p class="noindent">THE ARGUS (Melbourne): "The genuine humour of these +larrikin love poems is all the more effective because beneath the +surface fun there is a suggestion of deeper feelings that ennoble men +and unite them in the bonds of common fellow ship." +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +THE AGE (Melbourne): "'The Sentimental Bloke' is a striking conception and his portrayal masterly." +</p> +<p class="noindent">THE HERALD (Melbourne): "The Bloke is a character +who is likely long to remain deservedly popular in this country's +literature. 'The sonnet shining in the eyes' has been fixed by Mr. +Dennis in what is certainly a classic of its class, and he secures an +effect of true poetry without straining a simile or defying the canons +of Australia's colloquial speech." +</p> +<p class="noindent">QUEENSLANDER: "A well-printed, +cleverly-illustrated, and pleasant to handle little volume. The humour +of the 'Sentimental Bloke' has an exquisite quality, its sentiment a +tenderness, and its philosophy a soundness which compel attention ... +genuine poetry ... a sensitive appreciation of the beautiful ... +wholesome philosophy.. admirable verses." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +THE THREE KINGS, AND OTHER VERSES. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By WILL LAWSON. With portrait. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +Will Lawson is a New Zealander who, through the +<i> +Bulletin</i>, has made an Australasian reputation. His verses are bright and lively, in the Kipling manner, and full of human interest. +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +A BOOK OF AUSTRALIAN VERSE FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent">Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by BERTRAM +STEVENS. With numerous portraits. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full +morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +This book is thoroughly representative of the best Australian verse, +and, although intended mainly as a selection suitable for young folks, +it contains many pieces favoured by older readers. A number of the +poems are not obtainable in any other book. +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF AUSTRALIAN VERSE. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent">Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by BERTRAM +STEVENS. New (fourth) edition, revised and enlarged. Cloth gilt, gilt +top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +ATHENAEUM: "May be regarded as representative of the best short pieces +written by Australians or inspired by life in Australia or New +Zealand." +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +London: Macmillan & Co., Limited. +</i> +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +THE POETICAL WORKS OF BRUNTON STEPHENS. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent">As finally revised by the author, re-arranged and +printed from new type, with photogravure portrait. Cloth gilt, gilt +top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +THE TIMES: "This collection of the works of the Queensland poet, who +has for a generation deservedly held a high place in Australian +literature, well deserves study." +</p> +<p class="noindent">DAILY NEWS: "In turning over the pages of this +volume, one is struck by his breadth, his versatility, his compass, as +evidenced in theme, sentiment, and style." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +WHERE THE DEAD MEN LIE AND OTHER POEMS. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent">By BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE. Second edition, revised +and enlarged, with memoir, portraits, and 32 illustrations. Cloth gilt, +gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +J. BRUNTON STEPHENS, in THE BULLETIN: "Boake's work is often praised +for its local colour; but it has something better than that. It has +atmosphere—Australian atmosphere, that makes you feel the air of the +place—breathe the breath of the life." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +AT DAWN AND DUSK: Poems. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By VICTOR J. DALEY. Fourth edition. With photogravure portrait. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +BOOKMAN: "These verses are full of poetic fancy musically expressed." +</p> +<p class="noindent">SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: "The indefinable charm is +here, and the spell, and the music.... A distinct advance for +Australian verse in ideality, in grace and polish, in the study of the +rarer forms of verse, and in the true faculty of poetic feeling and +expression." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +WINE AND ROSES: A New Volume of Poems. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By VICTOR J. DALEY. With portrait. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">DAILY TELEGRAPH: "Most of his verse is tinged with +sadness—as in most Irish poetry—but there is a fine imaginative quality +that lifts it to a far higher plane than that of the conventional +melancholy rhymer. There are poems in this book that recall the magic +of Rossetti.... Victor Daley has left his mark in the beginnings of an +Australian literature." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +HOW HE DIED, AND OTHER POEMS.</i>. +</p> +<p class="noindent">By JOHN FARRELL. Fourth edition. With memoir, +appreciations, and photogravure portrait. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. +6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +MELBOURNE AGE: "Farrells contributions to the literature of this +country were always distinguished by a fine, stirring optimism, a +genuine sympathy, and an idealistic sentiment, which in the book under +notice find their fullest expression." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER, AND OTHER VERSES. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent">By A.B. Paterson. Fifty-eighth thousand. With +photogravure portrait and vignette title. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. +6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +ATHENAEUM: "Swinging, rattling ballads of ready humour, ready pathos, +and crowding adventure ... Stirring and entertaining ballads about +great rides, in which the lines gallop like the very hoofs of the +horses." +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +London: Macmillan & Co., Limited. +</i> +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +RIO GRANDE'S LAST RACE, AND OTHER VERSES. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By A.B. Paterson. Seventeenth thousand. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">SPECTATOR: "There is no mistaking the vigour of Mr. +Paterson's verse; there is no difficulty in feeling the strong human +interest which moves in it." +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +London: Macmillan & Co., Limited. +</i> +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +THE SECRET KEY, AND OTHER VERSES. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By George Essex Evans. Second edition, with portrait. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">GLASGOW HERALD: "There is ... the breath of that +apparently immortal spirit which has inspired ... almost all that is +best in English higher song." +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +THE BOOKMAN: "Mr. Evans has written many charming and musical poems ... many pretty and haunting lines." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +IN THE DAYS WHEN THE WORLD WAS WIDE, AND OTHER VERSES. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By Henry Lawson. Twentieth thousand. With photogravure portrait. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">THE ACADEMY: "These ballads (for such they mostly +are) abound in spirit and manhood, in the colour and smell of +Australian soil. They deserve the popularity which they have won in +Australia, and which, we trust, this edition will now give them in +England." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +VERSES, POPULAR AND HUMOROUS. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By HENRY LAWSON. Eighteenth thousand. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">NEW YORK JOURNAL: "Such pride as a man feels when +he has true greatness as his guest, this newspaper feels in introducing +to a million readers a man of ability hitherto unknown to them. Henry +Lawson is his name." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +WHEN I WAS KING, AND OTHER VERSES. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By HENRY LAWSON. Tenth thousand. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">THE SPECTATOR: "A good deal of humour, a great deal +of spirit, and a robust philosophy are the main characteristics of +these Australian poets. Because they write of a world they know, and of +feelings they have themselves shared in, they are far nearer the heart +of poetry than the most accomplished devotees of a literary tradition." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +ON THE TRACK AND OVER THE SLIPRAILS. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By HENRY LAWSON. Twentieth thousand. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">DAILY CHRONICLE: "Will well sustain the reputation +its author has already won as the best writer of Australian short +stories and sketches." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +FAIR GIRLS AND GRAY HORSES, WITH OTHER VERSES. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent">By WILL H. OGILVIE. Revised edition, completing +twentieth thousand. With portrait. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full +morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +SCOTSMAN: "Its verses draw their natural inspiration from the camp, the +cattle trail, and the bush; and their most characteristic and +compelling rhythms from the clatter of horses' hoofs." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +HEARTS OF GOLD, AND OTHER VERSES. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By WILL H. OGILVIE. Fourth thousand. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +DAILY TELEGRAPH: "Will be welcomed by all who love the stirring music and strong masculine feeling of this poet's verse." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +WHILE THE BILLY BOILS. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent">By HENRY LAWSON. With eight illustrations by F.P. +Mahony. Thirty-second thousand. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full +morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +THE ACADEMY: "A book of honest, direct, sympathetic, humorous writing +about Australia from within is worth a library of travellers' tales ... +The result is a real book—a book in a hundred. His language is terse, +supple, and richly idiomatic. He can tell a yarn with the best." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +CHILDREN OF THE BUSH. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By HENRY LAWSON. Eleventh thousand. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">THE BULLETIN: "These stories are the real +Australia, written by the foremost living Australian author ... +Lawson's genius remains as vivid and human as when he first boiled his +literary billy." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +JOE WILSON AND HIS MATES. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By HENRY LAWSON. Eleventh thousand. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d.; full morocco, gilt edges, 6s. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">THE ATHENAEUM: "This is a long way the best work +Mr. Lawson has yet given us. These stories are so good that (from the +literary point of view of course) one hopes they are not +autobiographical. As autobiography they would be good, as pure fiction +they are more of an attainment." +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +London: Wm. Blackwood & Sons. +</i> +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +LAURENCE HOPE'S LOVE LYRICS. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +Uniformly bound in fancy boards with cloth back. 6s. (<i>postage 3d.</i>) per volume. +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +THE GARDEN OF KAMA. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent">DAILY CHRONICLE: "No one has so truly interpreted +the Indian mind—no one, transcribing Indian thought into our +literature, has retained so high and serious a level, and quite apart +from the rarity of themes and setting—the verses remain—true poems." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +STARS OF THE DESERT. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent">OUTLOOK: "It is not merely that these verses +describe Oriental scenes and describe them with vividness, there is a +feeling in the rhythm—a timbre of the words that seems akin to the sand +and palm-trees and the changeless East." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +INDIAN LOVE. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent">SPECTATOR: "The poetry of Laurence Hope must hold a +unique place in modern letters. No woman has written lines so full of a +strange primeval savagery—a haunting music—the living force of poetry." +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +London: William Heinemann. +</i> +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +THE WITCH MAID, AND OTHER VERSES. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By DOROTHEA MACKELLAR. Cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: "She possesses to a +remarkable degree the faculty of conjuring up before our eyes an +extraordinarily vivid picture in a single line or even a word or two. +Miss Mackellar can grasp the essential spirit of a scene, and what is +rarer still, can find words to make us, too, see it, where before we +have been blind." +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +London: J.M. Dent & Co. Ltd. +</i> +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +TO-MORROW: A Dramatic Sketch of the Character and Environment of Robert Greene. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By J. LE GAY BRERETON. Paper cover, 1s. 6d. (<i>postage 1d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: "The first Australian play of literary worth." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +SONGS OF A SUNLIT LAND. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By COLONEL J.A. KENNETH MACKAY. Cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +STORIES OF OLD SYDNEY. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By CHARLES H. BERTIE. With 53 pen and pencil drawings by SYDNEY URE SMITH. Cloth cover, printed in colours, 3s. 6d. (<i>postage 1d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: "A charming and interesting +little book ... they live and breathe, and he has contrived to make +actual to us those remote and almost incredible days.... Mr. Smith's +admirable illustrations are an equally important feature of the book, +which, in addition to its interest, presents a great antiquarian +value." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +THE RISING OF THE COURT, AND OTHER SKETCHES IN PROSE AND VERSE. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By HENRY LAWSON. With picture cover (<i>Commonwealth Series</i>), 1s. (<i>postage 1d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">QUEENSLAND TIMES: "These stories show Lawson at his +best, and Lawson at his best is not to be beaten by short story writers +in current literature." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +AN OUTBACK MARRIAGE: A Story of Australian Life. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By A.B. PATERSON. Ninth thousand, with picture cover (<i>Commonwealth Series</i>), 1s. (<i>postage 1d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">SCOTSMAN: "The chief virtue of the book lies in its +fresh and vivid presentment of the wild life and the picturesque +manners of the Australian bush, while in form and style it claims +recognition as a work of considerable literary distinction." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +THE OLD BUSH SONGS. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +Collected and edited by A.B. PATERSON. Thirteenth thousand, with picture cover (<i>Commonwealth Series</i>), 1s. (<i>postage 1d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">DAILY TELEGRAPH: "Rude and rugged these old bush +songs are, but they carry in their vigorous lines the very impress of +their origin and of their genuineness.... Mr. Paterson has done his +work like an artist." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +GODS AND WOOD THINGS. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By L.H. ALLEN. Paper boards, 1s. (<i>postage 1d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: "Mr. Allen is one of the +select band who are saturated with classic lore and who seek to +translate the beings of pagan mythology to the Australian bush. 'Gods +and Wood Things' contains both prose and verse—the latter rhapsodical, +the former mystical." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +BUSHLAND STORIES. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By AMY ELEANOR MACK. Second edition, with coloured illustrations and decorated cloth cover, 3s. 6d. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">ACADEMY: "It is not often that we have the pleasure +to welcome from Australia a book of so many charming short stories as +are contained in the volume before us." +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +SCOTSMAN: "Charming and simple nursery tales, appetisingly touched with local colour of the Bush." +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +BIRMINGHAM DAILY POST: "There is a daintiness and distinct charm in these fairy tales." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +SCRIBBLING SUE, AND OTHER STORIES. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By AMY ELEANOR MACK. With coloured and other illustrations and decorated cloth cover, 3s. 6d. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">These stories are written in the same happy vein as +"Bushland Stories." Miss Mack's intense love of nature is reflected in +all her books, and her readers, both young and old, are at once +attracted by the natural ring of her work. +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +GEM OF THE FLAT: A. Story of Young Australians. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By CONSTANCE MACKNESS. With coloured and other illustrations and decorated cloth cover, 3s. 6d. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">"Gem of the Flat" is a story of Australian bush +children. The local colouring is distinctly good; the children are +alive, and talk like real children; the incidents are natural and well +described. The style is fresh, the dialogue well managed, and the story +as a whole is interesting and pleasant, with a good tone about it. +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +DOT AND THE KANGAROO. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By ETHEL C. PEDLEY. Illustrated by F.P. Mahony. Third edition, with decorated cloth cover, 2s. 6d. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent">SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: "'Dot and the Kangaroo' is +without doubt one of the most charming books that could be put into the +hands of a child. It is admirably illustrated by Frank P. Mahony, who +seems to have entered thoroughly into the animal world of Australia. +The story is altogether Australian.... It is told so simply, and yet so +artistically, that even the 'grown-ups' amongst us must enjoy it." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +THE ANNOTATED CONSTITUTION OF THE AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +By Sir JOHN QUICK, LL.D., and R.R. GARRAN, C.M.G. Royal 8vo., cloth gilt, 21s. +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +THE TIMES: "A monument of industry." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +THE STATE AND FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONS OF AUSTRALIA. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent">By K.R. CRAMP, M.A., Examiner, N.S.W. Department of +Public Instruction. With portraits and illustrations. Second edition, +revised. Cloth gilt, 3s. 6d. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +N.S.W. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION GAZETTE: "Not only sound and scholarly, but +is written by a teacher of long experience.... Has the additional +advantage of being absolutely up to date.... Altogether an admirable +piece of work.... An interesting, very helpful, and very necessary +handbook." +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +HISTORY OF AUSTRALASIA: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent">By ARTHUR W. JOSE, author of "The Growth of the +Empire." Fifth edition, thoroughly revised, with many new maps and +illustrations from rare originals in the Mitchell Library. Cloth gilt, +3s. 6d. (<i>postage 2d.</i>) +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +THE BULLETIN: "It is the most complete handbook on the subject +available; the tone is judicial and the workmanship thorough.... 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(<i>postage 1d.</i>) +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +SIGNALLING HANDBOOK FOR AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +Including Morse System, Semaphore System, Use and Care of Apparatus, +Heliograph, Telescope, Flags, Message Forms, Station Routine, Training +and Classification, completely illustrated. Compiled by a Signalling +Officer. Stiff paper cover, 1s. (<i>postage 1d.</i>) +</p> +<hr class="short"> +<p class="noindent"> +<i> +HINTS TO NON-COMS. +</i> +</p> +<p class="noindent"> +Including Hints to Non-Coms., The Word of Command, The Art of +Instructing, Military Courtesy, Dress, Discipline, The Duties of +Sergeant-Major, Bandmaster, Quartermaster-Sergeant, Sergeant Cook, +Pioneer Sergeant, Signalling Sergeant, Band Sergeant, Transport +Sergeant, Armourer Sergeant, Orderly-Room Sergeant, Colour-Sergeant, +Sergeant, etc. By LIEUT. R. STUPART. Second edition, revised. Stiff +paper cover, 1s. 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