Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/15/1 - August 1915 - Part 3

15 Bn
on Aug 8
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slope. 14th got too far to rt 
up gully ending wd in abdel
no 1 slope ending w A as intended.
16^th followed 14 into head of
gully. Ts tried to outflank us
to rt. There was little digging.
pour men to sup back
Secing it ws Iv8
under cover of fully of Asna Dere
then who crossed field were hit-
but not men who kept to N of it.
A.R. Spiva ws not much day in at the
time
Cd Dear Lad Bde abt
450 but didn't hear of ti
Never saw barbed were
& never I atrenc oul
sorse wh is very nearly
as good
 

15 Bo.
Aug8.
 

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Started 850 on Sth
Hat 290 on 8t
120 of them messey
Started a 26 officers
Finishe w Col. Ad. T. Dr. Padse & one other
allothers were k.W. or m.
15 men under youden prob. Tarreaderd
The col. ws abt broken & done up
& his bo seems to have be deed
faged. I believe some of them are
Id to have known thenselve
down tor tired to fight or run
away. Turks are sd by a
woundedman to have strippe
these men & then shot them - but
the man ws badly wounded
& scared.
Camon doesnt think the
were on the Maiajits - He thinks
it ws dsma.
 

XV
 

18Bn.
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The 18Bn. Landed Aug 21s or 20
as ordere out abt 2.30
or lates on morning of Aug 22, to
round off Col. Rossells posity on
knot 60. Everyone wants hese
new Austalians -greathin
cheery fellows whom it diyour
heart good to see - guite te byp
f I have ever seen, & such a pplended
cheery contrast to our tireo old fellows
My were all Eagerly askan questions
& they had two god point of an order
ron quickly down lenc & ( Tey
were quiet. Foo two days one us
continacly
any them fou out
towards Bduchopes Hill where
Col Holmes had his H.D. very
inquiisitive as to howtays were
7
This night at 2.30 Mey
were ordered outto the loft
take trenchs marked in man
 

That mag was wrong. The C.D (E.S
trenc certainly cuble round the
Weatern side of knot 60
& I think it has two brouches,
one going to the right & the other
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bending back N. )
I am told by
may pfor that trench Ih goes to
a deadcad. Tkis held by
Sikho Connaught Rangers &
Turkhas & the 19th Bn
has been put in on left
of thurkas to connect ap
w British who after
coming ap excellently on
aug 21 just to keet ti
Sikhs suddenly fellbact
 

I don't know treason.
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100ads, good
Tbey had an onormouss
artilery sreparetion & we had
none for our charge of Au 21,
The Bte had to come tho a
sate between Lekho & Garkhas
to deply - arrived there 6.30
open dayhight & deployed
underfire & charged ap hil.
The first live ws led by capt
Goodsell. Tey reache trust
& were going along it down
N. Shope of Will when m. gs
Pobouts them. They came
out of t part. Maj Lane
however stil held part of
truill, but there los F. braich
alt royds away &he
 

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as attacked io bombs. The man
knew nothing abtbombs & gradually
withdrew down trench LT. It seens
to me they met two unforcueen
tride, but this may not be so
I went outon A 23
found them being withdrawn
except so all part of 50 who
were convelting NE with Siths
CA3 trench. The men in I truch
had maorcs next tm. As I
got ut trud there ws a good
deal of ferig from our maw on
right- Maoris I thak were
nervous. Every Austrahian os
looking anxioubly along his
bayonet at the schab - land an
officer a specticles ws saying
aueet boys - quiet lads- I
dont want any of you tofere
 

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unless he can actualy see some
to shoot at I lote them I thought
the shooting as simply parrie
they cooked a but anxious
but they werent firy for
men who had been at it 36
who hadnever seen
action before to want bad
The Ts might for all they knew
have been creping ap-
or
might have wushed them and
entont of the bash (wh actet
As teir head cover).
I saw that Col. He clearly
had at the remolest idee of
what the had or hadne done-
He wa saying in fronto 1 me
that they had lost thir confidence
that it ws weeked to put them in
tered as they were (why they were
 

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bucking their packs of
as milner sutet comparet to
onr men. He as sure they had be
shot down by 1N. gealanders,
marderego. They didn't
know the look of a bout
they ladabbu geven time – it
wi have be better to put them
in & tell them nothing (wh I
ater susped io just abt
what the Colonel did for be
didnt seem to understand his
orders. And now theyre bla
me for this! he sd in froutdf
them – clearly first then to
be done for the Had of a good
regiment like this one is to
Sack Col. Chapman & Hsd.
he wdn't act on ond
 

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like those if he got them again.
I saw. Maj. Gorgor in the
tench & Capt Blair outside
of y
pigor tola as he had
brought his men over but advt
find Dare when he got over
Kaiajik. He had to face a
very hot fire - but charged trincl
& got a faw 15 in it.
some of them worked up
right Comana trench out a
second truck
(those were
fellows I tought were the L3th
They went along with boubs
but the 13th wd not ap with
them & they disht hold to
part of trench - Abt 12 went
 

on & to think some were cat
but two sot back.
can help thinking the o me
of 13014 cd have coneon.
men
The N.3. with them were withddn
& put in towen down - I must
find how this ws done. I
ws probably bother where 131
Cx crosse than where W
did - V.3. seemed to thank
it ws avery not cornev.
N3 fenally took not quite
up to 1 comma. brench
That night an exhaordua
they happined. Att 2.30
300 tarks were seen con
out of bush to rifles sh
They stopped & a few