Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/14/1 - August 1915 - Part 6

13-14-16.
15 in reserve.
16 in touch w Indians. We
started burial [[shorthand]] & S [[shorthand]] getting
amnn- getting away wounded,
digging trenches & looking for
gathering [[?]] & [[?]] [[?]] positn.
Abt 5. 30 Gen Consent for me to
discuss [[?]] offensive [[?]]
got orders at 7 o’c to lin
gen he, to attack to
sach ? as I a surphes)
up Abdul R. Spiir Soas
to draw enemy down
sur fom t other wa
o I so the idea to
 

4. 304 of
attack
 

I hadnt Eno’ ? 6 exhannte
gen Cosarranged for me
added bo LBnK.O. Lancaster
h 6rs D at 9pn8
ws put in trenches at 2 am
16& 16 Brs. My
plan ws to leave 13,
with 15.14.16 fomm
assaulting Col. 15 be
14 & 16 main body, We
issued from 2 at Sam
for abs 1000 yds
marched in Col. of rouli
entired a
Lu
1head of column reached
just as
te
 

turn of the speer to S we
reached foot of A.R. Sper.
& came i of fire. They
got scattered – Post 1000 men
I sent back word to I cont he
any further than posite
we had reached- I required
of P2 newbus
9is
where
as to c
Sigas
or withdraw behind
am
defencive live. Abt. 50C
I got g0 from M.G. Cox to Wellidra
behind my defensive time after
Evacuatin all wounder.
detailed Capt Rose to
 

command rear pard w 4
in go rone platoon. During be
only. Fire ws coming from
cullies on both sides & from summit
15th lost at least 400
Rose put ap a splended fight
& mowed down C. attack after
C. attack down the ridge&
mowed down
There ws a lot of bravery in
wacuating was
& willdrawel
ws complete by 8.30.
On Sand aft. W5p
we a county attack
on t
front of 13Bnt
CI
ROLR) & this ws reputsi
 

hurkas got up or
2
(This is a note concerning
the Curkhas getting to th crest
on Moud. - the first I had heard
of it, I think. Tund is an evior)
Caw B. 217/2
 

a littledif
much loss
to in
Sence
fellows have
day wonderfully - & lost
X
few men
Brit.
units aroun
them lost
heavily
kings own
our truches
lost near
200 m

incl2 majors k. in
70 13 Bn1
tont lose 3o.
 

It is quite char tome to monash
did not know where his ble got to
on Fiend morning. Dare says definitily
t he weatng after 15th along ridge
on other side of Kajalik Drie - on wh
Kerk trenches now are - be pocated me
out the place they trned up (wheatfield)
place they 15th got broken at (scmmb)
& place he himself got to - allow
t sper - the says he w have
stayed there.
Lock thinks he led theme up
Abdul Kahman spur.
clearly they ought to have had
some one to guard this left. If there
tos any opposition at all on
the Saty fron directur of Addul R.
they were sure to be c-attacked
from there. It was a hopelsss sut
of sttack - atterly in the airs
DAE
 

Monash used I same forate as
1 Tarks when they sept over
Chanck Leer. It was al fern
parbeltson - pallation wass
plation colona, one platoon in
lie behind othor The [s came
over the ridge at abt I am
on Tuesday in this formation
& the navalglens
artillery sumple
swept them away. Bodes
went ito I ai at ever
bierst. Then they came over
as coys an time - finally
i 558 65 - but 5 or 6 a
enough for a sheapael shat
to be sent at them. They
 

were being pounded from
the rear as wellas from
pout. Ove battery fired (then
say) 100 rounds. Eastwood
thank 1tes must have boat
4000 dead & certainly the
sandy slope ander Chamnk. Ban
is still shastly a dead bodie
Duriy1day wounded were
trying to crawl up over the
deed.
Efect Saw a wretihed little
black pup loping along the
beach today, in + out - disappear
in directe of Swola. Wonder where
now
he came
ellebian's calentates that the Rive
 

Gen Godley’s
Report
 

(Beaely Bill) has abready
rove sur
accounted for t000 casuallies in 1 beach
Reca
fay out.
Attack on Sari Baix Aug6-10.
Gen Satly's t&
13 Di of tro.
NZ Cnt Bde.
29 (Prit) Inf. Brij. 10th Dron
4 Aust. 12. Ble.
29 Ede 1nd. Inf. (itch & Cark)
183 Bdes Aust L.H.
N.E. M.R. Bde.
1Bn Maons
wek NE British Bpdrs & hows - Bde of fnd.
Mountain Arty, NZ Engrs, NEI Hust
Supply+ services
() Otago, Cant, well, Aick MR. & Maoris
under, B. Gen AH. Russell (a N.3lr) & 4th
S.W. Borderers &5 Wiltsheres ander
B. Gen. T.H. Travers formed covering force
for gen attack on Sari Bair
 

They draw enemy from nearer I posts w
Right assantlanyg Col. (N.3. 1nf Bole.
KyN3 Engls
And. M. Batty
Commanded by B. Pln. T. E. Tobnston
a N. Zealander of N. Maffor Bhire Regt)
L8/ Assaulting Col. under Bsij. Gen H.V.
Cox (291nd1y/ Bele, 4 Aust.
pt Bde under B. Gen T. Mones
Field Co.N. 3. Engrs & ad M s.
Bok these columns after night march
thro' diff I estaplihed himselve
at foot of Massef of Chunuk Bair
(8864 a
Mcantine 113ALH Beles cnder D. Juo Chaumes
& Hughes had containnd (by fire & bombs)
a large Ne of Ts in post of Quinus Popes
& walkers. At 4. T0 they dashed
out & cleared out 17.4 nearest
to them; but more than this they were
unable to accplish & they then witndre
to their own lies. Continued to contin