Sir John Monash, Personal Files Book 6, 12 July - 3 August 1915, Part 4

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Headquarters
N. Z. & A. Division;
Pursuant to para 2, E.Z.G. 623, (secret
memo) of 20/7/15, direction is sought as to whether the following
Fatigues ^ or which of them at present being furnished by this Brigade are to be
suspended over the period 22nd. and 23rd. instant.

 

BEACH DUTIES.

		Strength.
	Nature of Duty.	Officers.	NCO's.	Men.	Total.	Remarks.
[*R*]	Sanitary Fatigue.		2	19	21
[*R*]	Beach Party.	2	9	155	166.
[*Off 22/23*]	Inner Defences Working Party.	1	2	48	51
[*R*]	Pumping Party.		1	16	17
[*Off for 22/23*]	Guard Supply Depot.		2	8	10
	Guard. (A.P.M.) H.Q.Div.		2	12	14
[*Optional*]	{Guard (Well, Reserve {Gully)		1	3	4
	{Picquet		2	6	8
[*Available when out at work*]	{Bomb Factory.		4	75	79
	Bomb Factory.		4	75	79
[*To be divided*]	Working Party. Supply Ofer.		1	10	11
[*R*]	Guard. *		1	6	7.
[*Off 22/23*]	Special Terracing Work.	39		1200	1239
[**Shrapnel Point.*]	Totals.	42	31	1633	1706.

Reserve Gully, Anzac Beach,

Gallipoli Peninsula.

21st. July, 1915

 

Colonel.

Commanding 4th. Aust. Inf. Brigade.

 

 

"C" Form (Duplicate)

Army Form C.2123.

MESSAGES AND SIGNALS.

No. of Message ...........................

GM 6.50p. 

Charges to Pay.

        £          s.      d.

Office Stamp.

(35)

21/2/15 BG

 

Service Instructions.

 

Handed in at ............NZ.............  Office.....6.50p............................m.    Received.......2p...........m.

 

TO		4th Btn
Sender's Number NZ A 214	Day of Month 21	In reply to Number 16	A A A

 

Sanitary fatigue beach party

pumping party & Guard at SHRAPNEL

point cannot be interfered

with under any circumstances

and must remain AAA. The bomb

factory parties will be available

for fighting with their battalions

except when actually at the

bomb factory AAA. The Guard at 

Well and picquet on communications

trench can remain on or not at

your discretion provided they are 

available to fight AAA the Guard

supply depot. The Special Terracing

parties and the inner defences 

working party will be taken

 

 

 

 

 

"C" Form (Duplicate)

Army Form C.2123.

MESSAGES AND SIGNALS.

 

(34)

Service Instructions.

 

Handed in at ............NZ.............  Office.....6.50p............................m.    Received.......2p...........m.

 

TO
Sender's Number	Day of Month 2	In reply to Number	A A A

 

off for 22^nd and 23^rd AAA.

The fatigue of one NCO & ten

men will be permanently discontinued

from this date

 

Bm 479

 

FROM                             NZ A Div Anzac Cove

PLACE & TIME

 

"A" Form (Duplicate)

Army Form C.2121.

MESSAGES AND SIGNALS.

 

 

Recd. at .........................................m

Date....................................................

From.....................(36)...............................

By............................................................

• TO	OC 13th Bn 14th	15th Bn 16th Bn [[** 15th Bn]]
  Sender's Number Bm 479A	Day of Month Twenty one	In reply to Number NZ A Div	AAA

For the reasons explained this Day

to Conference of O C Battalions

the work of constructing Terraced

Bivouacs will be suspended from

0400 tomorrow 22^nd till further notice notice.

Requisitions for working parties

for above are cancelled and the 

tentative arrangements for the move

of portions of 13^th and 14^th Bns are

also Suspended.

•  

From JP M^cGlinn Lieut, Colonel,

BRIGADE MAJOR, 4TH. INF. BRIGADE,

Place             AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE.

Reserve Gully Anzac

Time               21 JUL 1915

•  

Date uncertain
probably May/1915.

 

The Heroes of Australasia.

IMPRESSIVE SERVICE AT

ST PAUL'S.

 

THE PRIMATE'S ADDRESS.

 

An impressive service was held in St Paul's

Cathedral yesterday evening in memory of the

men of Australia and New Zealand who have

fallen in the war. The Archbishop of Canterbury

delivered the address ; the Bishop of London 
pronounced the Blessing. and the Dean of St. Paul's

read the lesson. The great Church was crowded ;

and among those present were Lord Kintore

(representing the King), Colonel Streatfeild

(representing Queen Alexandra), Colonel

Dalrymple White (Grenadier Guards), the Lord

Mayor, who attended in state, and many 
distinguished Australians and New Zealanders,

including :—

 

The High Commissioner for Australia, New

Zealand, Canada, and South Africa, the Agents-

General of the Australian States, Lord

Lincolnshire, Sir Edmund and Lady Barton,

Brigadier-General J. M. Gordon, Lord and

Lady Sydenham, Mrs. Parker, Admiral Sir

Lewis Beaumont, Lord and Lady Brassy,

Admiral Sir George and Lady King-Hall,

General Sir Edward and Lady Hutton, Lord

and Lady Lindsay, Lady Birdwood, Lady Patey,

Admiral the Hon. Sir Edmund and Lady

Fremantle, Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, Lady

Darnley, Lord Harrowby, Admiral Sir Wilmot

Fawkes, Lord Tennyson, Sir Wiliam and Lady

MacGregor, and Sir Robert Nevinson.

 

In the nave there were several hundred soldiers,

wounded or whole, of the Australian and New

Zealand contingents, besides a sprinkling of their

Red Cross nurses, and over the choir hung

large banners with the Union Jack and the stars of

Australia and New Zealand.  Round the base of

the pulpit was grouped the band of the Grenadier

Guards, splendid in the now so rare scarlet. This

band and the organ played during the time that
elapsed between the opening of the doors and the

first appearance of the long procession of choir

and clergy.

 

There was no processional hymn ; but the
service opened with "Brief life is here our

portion"; and this choice was typical of much

in the musical portion of the ceremony.  In the

short special service arranged for the occasion
there were only a few prayers and responses, all

directed to the particular intention.

 

THE SERMON.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, who took for

his text St. John xv. 13, "Greater love hath no

man than this, that a man lay down his life for

his friends," said in the course of his sermon :—

 

We are met to-night for a definite and a very

sacred purpose. Here at the centre and hub of

the Empire's life we desire to thank God together

for the splendid devotion of our brothers from

Australia and New Zealand who in the cause

whereto we, as a people, have set our hand 
regarded not their lives unto the death.  Just two

centuries ago the Christian philosopher George

Berkeley, a singularly clear thinker, was standing,

as he tells us, in St. Paul's Cathedral, where he

noticed a little fly crawling on one of those great

pillars.  Here, he thought, is the likeness of each

human being as he creeps along.  The sorrow

which, like some dreadful precipice, interrupts

our life may turn out to be nothing but the joining 
or cement which binds the portions and

sections of the greater life into one beautiful and

harmonious whole.  The dark path may be but

the curve which in the full daylight of a brighter

world will be seen to be the inevitable span of

some majestic arch.

 

But in this great gathering to-night we want

another note besides that.  We must have the

triumph-note for those whose self-sacrifice has

meant so much to their country and to us who

honour them.  Among the lives laid down could

be found, as always, bright examples of the young

leadership to which we had looked for upholding

among fellows the spirit which sets manliness 
upon the surest basis, the basis of personal

loyalty to Christ.  For those lives and for the

footprints which they have left upon the sands of

time we give praise to God to-day.  But it would

be unnatural, untrue, to claim for all who thus

gave their lives in their country's cause the

character of stainless purity, or of the saintliness

which we sing of in our hymns.  Some of them, 

perhaps many of them, were not saints at all.

They were manly sons of the greatest Empire in

the world.  They were brave and buoyant with

plenty of the faults and failures which go so often

with high spirit.  They need, as we shall need, 

forgiveness and cleansing and new opportunity,

and they are in their Father's keeping and He

knows and cares.

 

Blow, trumpets, all your exultations blow :

For never shall their aureoled presence lack :
I see them muster in a gleaming row,
With ever-youthful brows that nobler show :
We find in our dull road their shining track :
In every nobler mood
We feel the orient of their spirit glow,
Part of our life's unalterable good.
 
THE LANDING ON ST. MARKS DAY
Do these words seem to high for what we are
remembering? The feat of arms which was
achieved on the rocky beach and scrub-grown
cliffs of the Gallipoli Peninsula in the grey dawn

of St. Mark's Day, April 25, was a feat we are

assured, whose prowess has never been outshone,

has scarcely ever been rivalled, in military annals.

As the open boats under a hail from hidden guns

poured out their men in thousands on the beach,

below perpendicular cliffs of tangled scrub, the

task of breasting those heights looked to many

expert eyes, a sheer impossibility.  But by the

dauntless gallantry of brave men the impossible

feat was accomplished, and the record of those

hours and of the days which followed is now a 

portion of our Empire's heritage for ever. And

who did it? It was not the product of the long

discipline of some veteran corps of soldiers.  It

was mainly the achievement of men from sheep-

stations in the Australian bush or from the fields

or townships of New Zealand, who a few short

months ago had no dream of warfare as, like other

civilians, they went about their ordinary work.

But the call rang out and the response was ready,

and the result is before us all.  These Australians

and New Zealanders are enrolled among the 

champions when the Empire, for generations to

come, will delight to honour.  One of the best

traits of all is the generous tribute given by each

group to the indomitable valour of the rest.  To

quote from the private letter of a young New

Zealander, "the Australians were magnificent, and

deserve every good word that is said of them."

And all unite to praise the officers, midshipmen,

and men who formed the beach parties in that

eventful landing, each boat, we are reminded, "in

charge of a young midshipman, many of whom

have come straight from Dartmouth after only a 

couple of terms."  But of necessity it was at

fearful cost that these gallant deeds were done,

and the great roll of drums under this dome tonight 
will reverberate our reverent and grateful

sympathy to the Empire's furthest bound.  This

memorable act of stoutest service gives response

already to the rallying call of the Poet-Bishop of

Australia—

 

By all that have died for men,

By Christ who endured the Cross.

Count noting but honour gained,

Count all that is selfish loss.
 

Take up with a loyal heart

The burden upon you laid ;

Who fights on the side of God

Needs never be afraid.
 

Be true to the great good land,
And rear 'neath the southern sun
A race that shall hold its own,
And last till the world be done.
 
THE SIMPLICITY OF GRANDEUR

Then came the hymn, "Now the labourer's task
is oe'r”;  and the Blessing brought the service
proper to a close. Then the drums of the Grenadier

Guards broke into the thrilling prelude to the

"Dead March" in Saul, and when at length the

last sound of the drums and trumpets had died

away, from the far western end of the Cathedral
shrilled the call of the bugler crying the "Last

Post."  Last of all came the National Anthem,

played and sung in full.

 

The service was simple, but with the simplicity

of grandeur.  It was the expression of deep and

common feeling.  The brave men whom it 
commemorated had come from far off to die, far off

both from home and from this central point of the

Empire for whose idea and purpose they have

given their lives ; and last night St. Paul's

Cathedral seemed to speak with the single voice

of the Empire in love and honour of its heroic

children.

 

R.E. Printing Section, M.E.F.
 

SPECIAL PASS.

Private L.J.SCOTT, 2nd Battalion, is authorised
to go into the lines of all units by night or by day,
as his duties may require.
He can be identified by the tattooed letters "L.S."
on the right hand above the thumb.
Any officer who examines this pass is to initial
and return it.

Major.
General Staff.
1st Australian Division.

Divisional Headquarters
22nd July, 1915.
 

H.Q 4^th Inf Bde
22-7-15
C.O. 13 Bns
14
15
16

In anticipation of Operation Order to be issued later ^ this day Commanding
officers will forthwith expedite the following matters :—
 

1. Replenishment of Ammunition, on following basis:—
(a) on the man 200 rounds (not 220 rounds)
(b) in Regimental Reserve 50 rounds per rifle
The Brigade reserve will, after above replenishment, be brought up to 100 rounds.
per rifle.
2. Inspection of Rifles, Bayonets & Entrenching Implements to ensure that
that all are in a fit & serviceable condition
3. Issue & instructions as to wearing & use of Gas Defence Helmets
4. Filling of Waterbottles, & issue of ^ Emergency rations & reserve food in haversacks.
5. Distribution of regimental reserve of picks & shovels, & the drawing (through

Brigade Head Quarters) from the Brigade Tool Reserve, of sufficient ^ additional picks &

shovels, — so as to ensure the following, distributing in equal proportion distributed equally throughout.
the Battalion:—

13th Battalion	100 picks	100 shovels
14            "	100     "	100     "
15            "	100     "	100     "
16            "	80     "	80     "

6. Cancel general leave, restrict dispersion of personnel in bathing, ^ water & fatigue
parties; & also concert measures to rapidly concentrate the unit.
7. Perfect arrangements for leaving & details (reduced to the minimum possible)
in charge of battalion property, in the event of the Battalion being ordered
away from the bivouac.
Lt Col
Brigade Major
 

Copy N^o

^T
Operation order N^o 4
by
Colonel J. Monash V.D.
Commanding Fourth Australian Infantry Brigade
Reserve Gully, ANZAC
July 22 / 1915.

Information  1. A Turkish attack ^ in force may be expected on or before July 23
Distribution  2. The 15^th Battalion ^ (less M. G. section) is at the disposal of the G.O.C. First xxxxx N.Z & A.
xxxx Division. — The C.O. 15^th Battalion makes his own
arrangements for Keeping touch with this ^ General Staff of N.Z & A Division.—
The Brigade (less 15^th Bⁿ & M.G. Sections of 14^th, 15^th & 16^th B^ns)
is Army Corps Reserve, & must be in readiness to move at
half an hour's notice.—
Equipment  3. Fighting order — no packs — Waterbottles filled — Emergency ration
and one day's food — gas helmets — 200 rounds on man — Picks &
shovels in proportions already notified.
Standing to Arms  4. The ^ whole Brigade will stand to arms, without further orders, at the
following times:—
July 22 at 2340
July 23 at 0300
July 23 at 2400 (midnight)
July 24 at 0300
If no attack is in progress, units will break off 30 minutes after
the times named.
Liaison offices  5. At every 'Stand to Arms' or other 'Alarm', each Brigade Unit
 will send to Brigade Head Quarters one officer for orders. —
The Staff Captain will, as soon as an attack becomes general, report
to General Staff, Army Corps H. Q., with two specially selected orderlies
to be furnished by 13^th Battalion, who will report to him at every
'Stand to Arms' or other 'Alarm'.—
Signals.  G  C. O. Signals will make arrangements to run lines following
Brigade Head Quarters or individual Battalions
P.T.O.
 

Advance to attack. 7. It is essential that, — in the event of movements in the dark, the

utmost care is taken that units move ^ to place of deployment well closed up,— or if that
is ^ found to be undesirable in view of artillery fire — that connecting files are liberally
employed to ensure the keeping of touch of the smaller groups with
each other.
Reports.  8. Reports to present position of Bgde Head Quarters until
otherwise notified

 

Lt Col

Brigade Major

4th Aust. Inf. Bde.

 

Issued at

To File           N^os

Officer           1 to 3

13 Battalion      4

14        "                5

15         "                6

16         "                7

Signals                 8

War Diary            9

A. S, C.                  10 .

4^th F Amb.           11

 

Send Alarm 1512

Gas Alarm 1620

Memo 22 X
Headquarters,
4th Austn. Inf. Bde.
22nd July 1915
C. O.
Battalion,
In anticipation of Operation Order to be
issued later this day, Commanding Officers will forthwith
expedite the following matters:—
1.  Replenishment of ammunition on following basis:—
(a) On the man, 200 rounds (not 220 rounds)
(b) In Regimental Reserve 50 rounds per rifle.
The Brigade Reserve will, after above replenishment, be
brought up to 100 rounds per rifle.
2.  Inspection of rifles, bayonets and entrenching implements 

to ensure that all are in a fit and serviceable condition.
3.  Issue, and instructions as to wearing and use, of Gas
Defence Helmets.
4.  Filling of Water-bottles and issue of emergency rations
and reserve food in haversacks.
5.  Distribution of Regimental Reserve, of picks and shovels
and the drawing (through Brigade Headquarters) from the
Brigade Tool Reserve of sufficient additional picks and
shovels so as to ensure the following distributed equally
throughout the Battalion:—
13th Battalion    100 picks and 100 shovels
14th Battalion    100 picks and 100 shovels
15th Battalion     100 picks and 100 shovels
16th Battalion       80 picks and 80 shovels
6.  Cancel general leave, restrict dispersion of personnelx in
bathing, water, and fatigue parties; also concert measures
to rapidly concentrate the unit.
7.  Perfect arrangements for leaving details (reduced to the
minimum possible) in charge of Battalion property, in the
event of the Battalion being ordered away from the bivouac.
 

JP M^cGlinn

Lieut. Colonel

Brigade Major, 4th Inf. Bde

003
 

OPERATION ORDER No. 4.
Copy No. 2.

[T]

by
Colonel J. Monash, V. D
Commanding Fourth Australian Infantry Brigade.
Reserve Gully, Anzac,
July 22nd. 1915.

 

 1.    1.

INFORMATION.

A Turkish attack in force may be expected on or before
July 23rd.
 

   2

DISTRIBUTION

The 15th. Battalion (less M.G. Section is at the disposal
of the G.O.C. N. Z. & A. Division.  The C. 0. 15th. Battalion
makes his own arrangements for keeping touch with General
Staff of N. Z. &  A. Division.
The Brigade (less 15th. Battalion and M.G. Sections of
14th., 15th., and 16th. Battalions) is Army Corps Reserve, &
must be in readiness to move at half an hour's notice.
 3. 

EQUIPMENT
Fighting order - no packs - waterbottles filled - emergency
ration and one day's food - Gas Helmets - 200 rounds
on man - picks and shovels in proportion already notified.
 

 4.

STANDING TO
ARMS

The ^whole Brigade will stand to arms, without further orders,
at the following times :-
July 22nd. at 2340             July 23rd. at 2400 (midnight)
July 23rd. at 0300              July 24th. at 0300.
1f no attack is in progress, Units will break off 30
minutes after the times named.
 

 5.

LIAS LIAISON
OFFICERS

At every "stand to arms" or other "alarm", each Brigade
Unit will send to Brigade Headquarters one officer for orders
The Staff Captain will, as soon as an attack becomes general
report to General Staff, Army Corps Headquarters, with two
specially selected orderlies to be furnished by 13th. Battalion,
who will report to him at every stand to arms or other
alarm.

 6.
SIGNALS

C. O. Signals will make arrangements to run lines following
Brigade Headquarters or individual Battalions.
 7. 

ADVANCE TO

ATTACK
It is essential that, in the event of movements in the
dark, the utmost care is taken that Units move  to place of
deployment well closed up, - or if that is found to be undesirable
in view of artillery fire - that connecting files
are liberally employed to ensure the keeping of touch of the
smaller groups with each other.

 8.

REPORTS
Reports to present position of Brigade Headquarters
until otherwise notified.
 

 

JP M^cGlinn Lt.-Col.

Brigade Major, 4th. Aust. Inf. Brigade

 

[*War diary*]

Issued at 1400   22-7-15

to                   No's

File                 1 to 3..

13th. BN.           4.

14th. BN.           5.

15th. BN.            6.

16th. BN.            7.

Signals.              8.

✓War Diary       9.

A. S, C.                10.

4th.Field Amb. 11.