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Title: With the Twenty-ninth division in Gallipoli, a chaplain's experiences
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Creighton, Oswin
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives, British World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns Turkey and the Near East
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Longmans, Green and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of horses picketed and hundreds of men about. One shell seemed to come from the Asiatic side. As far as it was possible to see through the telescope comparatively little damage was done, men were calmly walking about, the tents seemed undisturbed, and the tramp steamer, which had been run ashore, appeared to be none the worse. The Turks seemed to have planned a general bombardment, as shells appeared to come from the other side of Achi Baba, and shrapnel to burstall over the slopes on this side. Several shells dropped in the water in the Dardanelles close to the battleships.The ships all started to reply, and before long the batteries on the Asiatic side were silenced, or ceased to fire, and shells have been dropping intermittently on the slopes of Achi Baba. But everything is conjecture at this distance. It is a gorgeous morning and turning much warmer. The following account has been contributed by Lieut.-Colonel Newenham commanding the 2nd Royal Fusiliers. » ) > > » c J »* c- <â r
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Cliffs above X beach, with Royal Fusiliers on April 25, (1915) shortly after the landing. L-R : Captain Newenham (wounded later that day), Capt. Shafto (killed a week later), and an Orderly. IN GALLIPOLI 55 On April 23, by night, the ships containing the covering forceâi. e. 86th Brigade (2nd Royal Fusiliers, I St Lancashire Fusiliers, ist Royal Munster Fusiliers, and 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers) âsailed to Tenedos, where we lay on the 24th, and completed necessary transfers of men and warships, etc. Half Battalion Royal Fusiliers and Headquarters went on board YiM.S.Implacable about 7 p.m., from which ship we had been practising getting into boats,and so on; the other Half Battalion, under Brandreth, spent the night on two Fleet mine-sweepers. At about 10.30 p.m. the brigade and warships all sailed for the peninsula, arriving there by night. We had a good breakfast on Implacable at 3.30 a.m. We then proceeded to load up the boats, four tows of six boats each and a steam pinnace, twenty-five to thirty men in each boat, besides the six bluejackets to row when the pinnace cast us off. April 25.â

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