Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/14/1 - August 1915 - Part 3

were either relieving troops or
reinforcing - & so £5 had been
offered for a prisoner - laver
Pasha wanted badly to know
what we were doing - it is
as his wish.
Had dinner with [[Carlex]] ^5Bn in ^old fire
trenches behind Lone Pine trench
Cd hear tremendous bombardment
at Achi Baba- & saw our
shrapnel well over N shoulder
whipping the valley into alust
abt 8pm.

 

Hear we lost
4000 in this
fighteng at Helles
 

Aug. 13 Friday Amiet
They say T.s recaptand part
of a trench down S - attacking
there; And tt we have 2000 of
them cut off unable to retreat
but unwilling to surrender
British shell still falling on
W Hills, & T shell near Suvla Beach.
Can hear bubble of T. fighting
tonight away to N - As O.G. says
like water boiling in t distance.
We also had a couple of heavy bursts
opposite us. They put some
nasty shellint Lone Pine. One
fell into a truck & made a
 

complete anniHilario’s of 4 men.
5 Bn went in, 3 Bn I believe,
came out
Sat. Aug 14.
Sounds of fairly heavy fighting
down south. We here are having as
peaceful time again. They have a few
new guns agst us.
They are starting to [[shy]] rockets at
us now. Last night on Gun ridge there
exploded something w a sound like our
Japanese bombs. Tin top [[bent]] by explosion
like paper; Brass rocket top, screwing
into wooden stand 

[[illustration]]

 

5pm
5 o’c onwards to 7.30 Enemy bombarding
L. Pine [[from]]  w 75[[th]], 8.2, & 6[[ ]].
8.30pm. Turk [[ ]] breaks out.
Abt 8 T. shells at once bursting over Suvla
Brit no further forward.
11 pm. Abt ten minutes ago as I was
talking to Casey a long rumble. It
sounded like explosion - but I thought
& so did White tt it ws earthquake .
Ten minutes later a similar rumble.
The generals lamp shook.
We have finished burying the
T. dead in the [[sap]] L. Pine. There
seems to be less smell today. They
[[say]] we can ^still look right over,

Ts behind Jolly, but T.s are
[[d…]] fast. They have a watertight
system - no one dept or section
knows what any other is doing - so
 

I suppose J. Jolly doesn't really know
what has happened at L Pine - at any
rate doesn't realise wh trenches are
ours.
Aug. 15. Sund.
12. 40am. Our guns firing - seem to
have upset Ts. Constant rifle fire-

[This really was a fierce bombing of Lone Pine-
something tremendous-but it came to nothing]
We sent away 20 snipers [[7]] for 9th
Army Corps - & others for [[?]] - 100 altogether
Organisation of sniping under
Stace- Murgo Mack has it [[?]].
[[/]] 28 

men - alld t choose
any good shot he leked. He got kind
into pituss smpery by enemy abat
ceased. We can bring a male
trai apt valley now in day ti
All we have to do is to tern on the
spapers first - thy fire into holes
Conholes & hap &
Webe
grace wend
when
 

for a day or two - Evemy knew
at once. But Mack soon got them
down again. (Graavas k. in N.Z attell
I believe)
Au 15t Night before last Frks
rotled out as by berd cage
affair filled to enflaminables
wh burkt for 2ars. Pob a flare
Near the Buitish have now
landed 4 divisions up V.
The 5455 ()6 & 12B)
They are shell almost from
Lewley stod
word go. the men,
cibl w T shell barstay on tim,
afficers aske adjatant "When
is coe to go - what are we to do
He diout know- So they were
Tst Shrapnellad.
The got he last snoll at N
laB
End of Lill NASc
 

last night
anapite
& be acharge got as far as &. They are
v bady off for water & are getting it in
carts from I bealte. The weather he
bn hot & they want to dimk a gt
Turks
deal. Thig still have the Derviihs
well bets as & Chocolati Hitl
Monash is calruched &to are
to oppra. He had a bad
where you had to run
shrapsuel jully to get up to
but it is pretty right now
Supers deared out
I hear a man name
allison beot Ghurkes in their
St charge to top & 971 or 13
whichever it as the reached;
& then 3 naval shells landed
 

amongst them & het 71 of them.
T. artillery ws on them also.
our arty gobt tarks badly
on 1 saty behind Lone Pine & on
rear Slope of Chunuk Bair. At
We Pine they id be seen pushen
their men ap whilst our shells
knocked them out.
N9300 On Fid. Aug 13 the transport
Royal Edward, carryin Hampshire
Regt & details (or acc. to others
500 stevedoses for mudros or
savle) no toopedoed when
on here second day out from
Alex, notfar from St
stands, Those on another
trausport I wiles away
 

saw a gt wave lift up under
her stern to abt 20 the
height of her funnel, +
subside. They noticed her
Sinking by 1 stern - & then 90
straight up on her stern
& then dive stere foremost.
the out down in 4 menates.
The other transports knew the
Hosp -Shep Sondan ws a
little bechend so thei syvalled
to her, & she sd take that hes
at to the boats of the
R. Edward were all rom
her. The picked ap betw 400
$500 & another 70 were
sicked of 1 neighbourn Greek
island by a trawles Hepay
 

to nearly 1000 lives were lost
Hug-20 still practically no
champ in situation. Dr Lisle
has been given command of
HCorvice Stopprd, stellin
-bosthed. (I hope of any one ever
Edits this deary they if tone
these things down - the Expressions
are often forcible for 1 salleof
brevity). The tommces were stappe
by wentd wites as much as
anyting. BBut Kt new arm as not
bery favourably compand b Briti
officers bere we our men.
our man are sefciently hard on
their water bothles– Bat (Ks fellows
drink theirs in a quarter of an
hoar & the run abt with their
wngues banging out for I rest of
day
Holmes w 1 170 x 16th arrived to