Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/286/1 - 1914 - 1918 - Part 6

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First World War, 1914–18
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A A WEDNESDAY 1815 1915 APRIL 22 THURSOAV last night but one on Gallipoli (Sat. night). Oct. 6& Ypur after our 3 planes had tone. A Taubl came over prelte low & went of Troops were kept in the sap in order to haveno movement on the beach.
23 Ael 1 A J FRIDAY 1915 1915 Ox APRIL. 24 SATURDAY No 1 Coy 18TADT. Rollsgausts It war fothers poom. Sir Jayons chanty -in College Klymes Vol. X1 B7. p.04. OH. Shrimplon caub. Macmellan Hr hond. I mpten marg Union. Coffee Room hibrary Shelf A4
157 Sunday SRDAFTER EASTEK 2 1659 1915 1915 20rd APRIL 26 Geo. B. Lowery 057 Office orong Vall Vic Lunnellers War Dear Phot 34 C2295 tapen 28/7/1 7-2 ferwerdear 25 APRIL
27 APRIL TUESDAY Phots of haw Records 1915 Hut. 1915 APRIL 28 WEDNESDAY Bdes not seen by pullet. A LA Bde. 124 Inf. Bde. Collectuy Hatt for Military ABI. Specialst Specialist Artillery. Facksklys Fanius Enginevunge Madinc Gun. Medical G.M.C.A, Comforts 2 Fand &tc. AA VC matson Law Brissendin or Jasgows ColtMi off. Ichoolo-w special referend to Duntiy Addave a lot of inquiry- mud be doniby byn A. Flying Coyps Records.
20 Sl THURSDAY 1915 1915 APRIL 30 FRIDAY Gulletts address C4 J. Camborland Plate London w
1M 193 SATURDAY New Car No. 6.80 Photo. Permit No. 62 - to 30 Nov. Depot Was Muscuns, Staff He Barley 3585 1st any Coys Salvage. Warkaseuns for Poins Paybook hee wans pat 3 1915 n472 SuKele Sunday ITHATTER EASTEN See DAC f Pholdmether Bod Artst Letter to the men re Tropbees see white will entosit Exterios of Ch. Hut at Havre. Laf Phols for Bruche
SM 1915 MONDAY Special Leter.S.6 Victorium Bus. Special Letter No 7. Victorian Bres. M51 Thewreck E51 The German Relief M52. Aust Aeroph cambnay E52. Old Auz. His 1453. War Theeke O5Y. The America Soldier— S. S. Gen White. 3A Qulensland Bas 10 I Aust. Bas IG WA. Bus S12 Tas. Bus. 1915 TUESDAY 3.2 -81 i 25½ 1 w X 423 26 C MAV4
8 M WEDNESDAY PRRS £17 ast Bean Vict. 3230 188 7 letterto carre 1915 MAV.6. THURSDAY D OE56 ne
Sydney Sunbyor before October 1915 published a map of Angac with place names marked in (from October 7, 1075.) THE BRITISH-AUSTRALASIAN. wounded solder at Heleopolts IN A WOMENS HOSPITAL among wounded Australasians is keen, and rot the Kitchener force which relieved us from 9 p.m. very liberally satisfied at the present time. It is till 2 a.m. At that time we marched in a north- How Auetralasian Wounded Appreciate not confined to Endell-street, but is evidenced in all easterly direction over some hills, and dug in at Endellestreet. the hospitals where Australasians are under treat- the foot of a fairly large hill. That position was If anybody wants to gramble at this place, he'd ment. But Endellstreet is the only hospital, in a base for our operations in the succeeding days, better not do it before me. the experience of this paper, which has taken im- when we saw some hot fighting, and eventually Thus an Australian soldier, a big, stringy man mediate and practical steps to supply the demand had to retire to that base. There we remained till from the bush, in the courtyard of the Endell-street from its own managerial side. Sunday, August 22, when we advanced again. Military Hospital, where many Australian and New Without relying on the efforts of individual We cooperated with the ryth, and used as our Lealand wounded soldiers are now quartered. Any visitors, or of such Australian organisations as are advanced base a trench which had been made by mischievous person who might have wished to concerned with the comfort of our wounded men the 15th. This looked out upon a big gully which arrange the scrap which would undoubtedly have Miss Elizabeth Robins, on behalf of the organisa- led to the slope of Hill 6o. Into this gully we followed any expression of dissatisfaction in the tion of the hospital, paid a visit to the office of advanced, though the mouth of it was strongly pro- presence of this still inditant hero, would have has THE BRITISH-AUSTEALASIAN, and triumphantl rected by machine gun fire. The slope beyond it a hard matter to find the grumbler. The Austra- carried off all the papers which could be spared was even more strongly protected, and across this lasian has a reputation for knowing when he is from the office files for the benefit of the wounded advanced in three lines. I was in the third line. well off, and apparently has decided, individually at Endell-street. There has since been application The first two lines probably advanced about 250 and en masse, that at Endell-street he is so circum- for books of Australian interest for the hospital yards before they were forced to lie down and dig stanced library, which we have met as far as lies in our in. We in the third line only got fifty yard. One enters the place with a dim realisation that power. Australasians in London will de well to wher we had ta da the same thine— In that space it is different in some essential from the many other bear in mind that gifts of this kind to the library we lost quite t0o men. There we lay all day, and military hospitals with which the face of England is at Endell-street will find ready appreciation from in the dusk of evening I was sent out to find out now dotted. To be sure, it lies in the heart of the management, as well as from the patients. what had happened to the two first lines Soho, midway between Oxfordstreet and Long The patients at Endell-street include many men No one could see me, but a steady stream of Acre, the hum of which busy traffic-arteries of the 5th Brigade, who landed on Gallipoli Penin bullets was crossing the slope, and I found dead resounds through the wards until darkness blots it sula in the third week of August, and immediatel men almost every second step. I could not have out, as the fall of night does, even in Central took part in the fighting which resulted in thi gone more than twenty yards when I was hit; and London, in these latter days. Also, it is a work capture of Hill 60, and the consolidation of the a man sent out after me did not get so far. You house converted to hospital purposes. But other British positions in one long stretch of twelve miles must understand that we afforded no mark to the military hospitals have been improvised from from Suvla Bay to Gaba Tepe. The r7th and 18th enemy, but were hit by chance bullets among the municipal buildings in crowded city quarters, Battalions landed on August 10, and were in action constant stream they direct across our front. The first novel note is struck by the gate on the 2rst, which was pretty quick work. Most Two fruitful topics of conversation among the attendant, who proves to be a tall and imperturbable of the men from this brigade at Endell-street belong men were the retirement of Major Wallingford, young woman in the neat khaki-coloured uniform to the 18th Battalion, which fell into the very thick whose remarkable work with machine gun sections of the Woman's Hospital Corps. It would indeed of the fighting, and had a very rough experience. and sharpshooters has been one of the features of be difficult for any unauthorised person to win. Some idea of the constant shelling to which the the Anzac fighting; and the reappearance of Beachy way past this pleasant but firm janitor. He Australasians are now subjected was gained from Bill, the vicious gun that is more dreaded than appetite for official authorisation having been satis Signaller Ebsary of the 8th Battalion, who was any other piece of artillery known to the men of fied, one is introduced to the vista of a courtyare twice buried by shell explosions, and dug out while bathed in sunshine, and occupied by wounded Annac. engaged in his signalling work on the right of the soldiers in open-air beds and pleasant easy chairs Of Major Wallingford, whom they call the Australasian position. Ebsary, who comes. from A glass shelter runs across the yard, which is Dandenong, said that the worst of the shells come human machine-gun,? stories that will pass into further shaded by a number of fourishing plane from 6-in. howitzers, and that the effect of thi= legends in days to come, are passed from mouth to trees. The men are listening to the music of a shelling would be worse, but that so many of the mouth. A member of the Auckland machine-gun string band, the members of which are the pro- section, wounded on the slopes of Sari Bair, told ells do not explode. There is one kind of shell we do not fear much, tessional musicians of the orchestra of the neigh of the placing of ten machine guns to hold the bouring Prince's Theatre, who have generousl trench which the New Lealanders had gained on he said, and that is the shell that comes from the given up an afternoon of their leisure to please the old muzzle-loading guns which the Turks still the summit of that mountain. wounded men. employ. These are known as footballs,? of When the Turks, with a rush in which thousands Gradually one becomes aware of the fact that "plum-puddings,? and are perfectly round. They of them participated, drove the occupants out of these musicians, and the biveglad heroes they are come from suns of verx larse bore; for each one that wench. and surged over the grest of the hill entertaining, are the only men about the establish weighs something like 150 pounds. Each has a in dense masses, the machinegans of Major Wal- ment. More khaki-clad orderlies fit about the small iron ball attached to it by a short chain, lingford began to speak. No less than 16,000 shots place, emphasising the fact that there is no work. and comes hurtling through the air with a loud were firel in the furious fight which followed, and in a hospital at least, that cannot be done as well whistling noise. They can be seen quite plainly at leist 5,000 Turks fell as a result. by women as by men. A glance at the list of and give one plenty of time to get out of the way After the advance of August 6-8, the gun known doctors and surgeons, both resident and visiting The few which explode do so with a dull bang, and as Beachy Bill was silent, and the story went round shows that they are women, and among them are prove to be male of cast iron about two inches some of the most famous women doctors of the that he had been traced to his lair and destroved thick. by a well-directed shot from the warships; but United Kingdom. On August 6, I witnessed the charge against more than a week later the crash of his shrapnel Then one remembers the women's hospital, in the the mysterious trene ch which is called the Germar This is situated between was heard on the beach, and the Australasians organisation of which Dr. Garrett Anderson, Miss Officers’ Trench. realised that this terror of Anzac had only been Elizdbeth Robins, Miss Beatrice Harraden, and a Delaney's Gully and Steel’s Post, which are both shifted before the advance to some other position number of other prominent suffragists were con- between Lonesome Pine Ridge and Courtney's. II cerned; and which aid such good work at the front in the more remote hills. is only a small trench, but prisoners have told us in the early days of the war. Endell-street is the that only German officers are allowed to enter it Of the misdeeds of Beachy Bill all are most outward and visible sign of the crystallisation of The theory is that they are installing apparatus for eloquent. Over 2,00o Australasian casualties can this experiment into a great military hospital. I the generation of poisonous gas: anyway, we are be traced to his instrumentality alone, and the is run from end to end by women, and is a standing sure some devilry is preparing there. skill and cunning of his gun crew have made example of the medical sufficiency of the sex in such "The attack made against it on August 6 was not bathing almost as dangerous as a position in the an emergency as the present. successful. It is only distant fifty yards from our front of the firing line. This knowledge adds additional piquancy to the own trenches, and the intervening ground is clear chats with the wounded Australasians in the hos- and fat. But when our boys jumped over the pital, many of them men to whom the very idea of parapet, and made for it, there was such a burst of a woman doctor had been quite unfamiliar until fate machine gun and riffe fire that not a man reached SALARIES OF AUSTRALIAN NURSES. introduced them to the organisation of Endell-street it. It is practically shellproof, being roofed in It was interesting to learn that, after the first shock sleepers, like the front trenches at Lonesome The following is a statement of pay and allow- of the novelty, all had taken so kindly to the Pine ances of nurses on active service and in Austradia :— teminine regime, that some were even tempted to Private Lawson. of Mildura, told of an exciting ACTWE SERVICE:—Salary.—Matron, 12s. 6d. per make rather telling comparisons with their previous experience he had suffered when scouting for the diem; sister, os. per diem; etaff nurse, 7s. per diem. experience of hospital life. All were putting on lath at the foot of Hill 6o: an experience which Cost of Uniform on Enlistment.—As per new list, weight as a result of the liberal and scientific diel ended in the wound which caused his presence in L2L Allowances:- 2s. 6d. per diem mess allow. which they enioved, and all were beenty arve to the onton We started out from Outnost No. 2 on the night ance, if no mess provided; £it per annum for attention to minor details, the sum of which con- renewal of clothes; 3s. per diem when board and tributes so largely to their comfort and happiness of August 6, he said,? and took part in the night in hospital, and to their speedy recovery. lodging not provided on return to Australia with march of which so much has been written. We invalids. Pay to start from seven days before date Of this atteation to detail, THE BRITISH. took up a position at daybreak, and held it all ordered to embark. Pension Rights.—As for sol- AUSTRALASIAN has recently been afforded an day, in spite of strong opposition. We lost some example. The demand for Australasian newspapers diers on similar rate of pay. Total incapacity men there, but not many; not nearly so many as about £56, £64 and £76 per annum, for staff nurse, sister and matron respectively SERVICE IN AUSTRALLA—Salary.—Matron, £r6: to Australia, New Resland, 16s. per annum; sister, fioo 4s. per annum; staff nurse, (6o per annum. Cost of Uniform on En- Pacific Cable Route Fipt, etc. listment.—As per new list, Lig ros. Allowances.— Ki2 per annum for renewal of clothes, fiz per To New 2ea and Fy TARIFFS FROM THEM RLL CASMAN to bet annum for laundry, 3s. 6d. per diem in lieu of S rod p m rations. If lodgings not provided, 7s. per week UMITED KINGDOM (DMME OMMAR Cln Lnars on allowed. Compensation.—During sickness con- foer eeese of 20 words or le 1314 IWmEE CAmsenanS rord to croc of 20 80. tracted on duty, pay will be allowed for three ie attention. travellers is pardoularly tarited to the cheap FettNny Mis Memen aWIA PaciFIS are eccepted at 9ll Portel Telegraph Offces and Alendo Caple Commnien months, and will be maintained in hospital. At end of that period other privileges re compensation.
AUSTRALASLAN NEWS ITEMS Commonwealth. Although no announcement, says the Mel- bourne correspondent of the Perth Sunday Times, has yet been made of the name of Sir George Reid's successor as High Commissioner in London, no doubt is held by Federal members that Mr. Fisher, the Prime Minister, will be appointed to the position unless he has some personal reason: against proceeding to London, and of these he ha- not given the slightest indication up to the present. Mr. Hughes is gradually taking charge of the affairs of the Commonwealth, and all the big sub- jects recently before Parliament have been in his hands. On the face of things, it appears that Mr Hughes will succeed to the Prime Ministership. The appointment of Mr. Fisher to the position of High Commissioner will, it is said, invoive the resignation of the whole of the Ministry. This will not take place until about October. M present plans are followed the Governor-General must then send for somebody to form a new Administration, and as the Labour Party has a majority in Parlia- ment the new Prime Minister must come from its members. In order that the right man shall be sent for the party will hold a caucus meeting in October to elect a new leader in place of Mr. Fisher. At present there is only one man in the running, Mr. Hughes. In the event of his selection as leader, Mr. Fisher, if the Governor- General asks for his advice, will recommend that he be sent for to form a new Ministry. The usual procedure in the case of the Labour Party is to elect its Ministers by exhaustive ballot, leaving the Prime Minister to allot the portfolios. This method will be followed in October. There is no certainty that all the pre- sent Ministers will secure reelection to the Ministry, not because any of them have failed in their respective departments, but because it may be desired to give other members of the party a turn in office. The final report of Mr. Justice Rich, who was appointed a Royal Commission to inquire into com- plaints made in the House of Representatives by Mr. Orchard regarding the Liverpool camp, was laid before Parliamenton August so. The renor states that the evidence clearly established that supplies of clothing, uniforms, overcoats and bed- ding were wholly inadequate. The equipment of hospitals left much to be desired. The supply of medicine bottlee was wholly insufficient, and the administration of medical services was clumsy and uncertain. No charge had been made against Dr. Schlink of disloyalty or of having had German sumpathies, but the impropriety and inexpediency of the appointment in war time of a person of German name and German parentage to a position in connection with the defence of the country was so apparent as to call for no comment. The huts used by the men were draughty and in many cases the draughts were the cause of serious colds. Deal- ing with alleged preferential treatment in the Ger- man concentration came, Mr. Justice Rich said that the better conditions obtaining there were startling evidence of the benefits of decentralisation, com- bined with the virtue of entrusting full power or freedom of action to a man who was not afraid of exercising his responsibilities. According to the West Anstralian, a resident of New South Wales, who is an oid personal friend and admirer of the fine public services which Sir George Reid has rendered Australia, has made a handsome settlement in his favour. HENRY LATHAN Cate of Melbournel, Jaune Caw FarACo Court, Naval, and Military Tailor 59. Conduit street, London, W BUUKINES TO AUSTRALIA AN NEW LEALAND. The SA VATTON ARMV, through its Shipping Department, has become the largest Emigration Agency in the World. Tickets issued on all lines at the ordinary prevailing rates— First, Second and Third Class. Assisted passages arranged for those who are eligible. Introductions given. Passengers met and welcomed at Ports of Landing and advised, if necessary, as to labour conditions, wases, houses, climate, etc. AUSTRALIA and NEW ZEALAND are great and bountiful countries, and afford Happy Homes and a splendid opportunity for the right kind of people. Write for full particulars to Commissioner DAVID C. LAMS, 122, Queen Victoria St., E.C. October 7, 1915. THE BRITISH-AUSTRALASIAU. announced that Mr. J. C. Watson, the first Labour The Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Cook, on Prime Minister of the Commonwealth, is to be ap. August 30, asked the Prime Minister (Mr. Fisher) pointed honorary organiser in connection with the if, with regard to the desirability of enabling the scheme for the employment of returned soldiers. whole people to concentrate their united energies The Minister said that Mr. Watson some months on the prosecution of the war, he would reconsider the decision to subn it the referenda, with a vizw ago had offered his services to the Government in any capacity in connection with the war. I is to their postponeme t until the war pressure hld understood he is to superintend the whole of the been relieved. The Prime Minister, in reply, eart: The Government is of opinion that the referemt work of providing employment for returned soldiers. He may a8o go into the question of providing train- will not weaken but strengthen the attitude of Auc tralia in the war. While not questioning the bona& ing facilities, for special vocations for soldiers who tides of the Opposition in asking the question, 4 tt may not be able to follow their usual occupations on regret that we cannot comply with the request. account of having lost timbs or eyesight. An official instruction, issued recentiy to the Features of the Rovernments scheme for the various recruiting officers, is as follows:—Care is future management of the Fost and Telegraph De- to be taken that men of enemy nationality, even if pariment are an Administrative Council and an natupkxed, are not enlisted in the Austratian lmn- Inspector General: for the Commonwealth. The peria Force Similar action is to be taken in re- Posimaster General VSpe W be Pee of the Administrative Council. The secretary to gard to men of enemy parentage, even if born in Australia, except in such cages as are specially the department (Mrl j. Oxenham) is to be chief executive officer, and Messrs.]. Hesketh, chief elec- approved by the Commandant. Enrolling officers trical engineer, and C. C. Haldane, the chief are therefore requested before enrolling any persons under the above paragraphs, to submit their cases accountant, are to be members., An important pro vision is that each :ember of the Administrative in writing to district headquarters for a ruling. Council is to have direct access to the Minister. The duties of the Administrative Council are to A simpse of the military strengih of the Com- monwealth is afforded by the quarterly return of embrace the whole of the operations of the Post and Telegraph Department, and it is to be charged the militia forces, prepared by Adjutant-General Dodds. The Expeditionary Forces of, roughly with the reorganisation of tthe department through- 110,000 men, is included. Then Australia's trained out the Commonwealth. Subject to the Minister, the Administrative Council is to exercise complete jurise army,; with militia and permanent forces, totals 170,550 equipped, drilled, and armed. For the diction over all deparimental activities. quarter ended june go there were in the Common- wealth military forces a total of 3,176 permanent The Minister for Defence (Senator Pearce) has AlLAAORFH Land of Sunshine and Success. USTEALLA daims ottention, not only as a land to prosper in, but also as a land to A live in. For pleasure and profit combined it is unsurpassed. Australis is not anxious to swell her City population, but she wants the people to atrengthen her great primary and attractive industries in land. Agriculturists are specially invited and assisted to Australia. Hundreds of thousands M acres of fertlle land are being made available every year. It is easily obtainable, and there is an assured market for the produce. Extensive Irrigation Schemes are providing excellent opportunities for successful settlement in the Agricultural, Dairy, and Fruit Growing Industrice. To the man with capital and practical experience, Australis presents unsurpassed opportunities. Australia’s raw material is unlimtted in quantity and as varied in character. There to an ever ready market for all products, and every encouragement is given to the looal manufacturer. Australis is the country that offers advantages to the farmer and the manufacturer, returns to the employer and the worker, charms to the sportsman and the teurist. Go to Australin H you desire a warm welcome, a generous return for your energy and enterprise, a dwelling place that is the healthlest in the werld. For ILLUSTRATED PAMPHLETS and INFORMATION, apply to the HICH COMMISSIONER FORAUSTRALIA, TL, Victoria Street, LONDON, S.W.

1915   APRIL 22
THURSDAY
Note Gallipoli
Last night but one
on Gallipoli (Sat.
night). betw. 6 & 7 pm 
after our 3 planes
had gone. A Taube
came over pretty
low & went off.
Troops were kept
in the Sap in order
to have no
movement on the
beach.

 

1915 APRIL 24
SATURDAY
No 1 Coy
1st ADT. Rolls of Aust &
Gt war.
Fathers poem. Sir Gayon's
Chantry"- in "College
Rhymes" Vol XI 1871
p.84.
Oxf. Shrimpton
Camb. Macmillan [[& Sa?]]
Lond. Simpkin Marshall
Oxf. Union. Coffee Room
Library Shelf A4 

 

1915 APRIL 26
MONDAY
Stamps.
Geo. B. Lowery
Post Office
Korong Vale
Vic.
2 Aust. Tunnellers
War Diary
Photo 34 C 22 95
Taken 24/7/17 -2
for war diary. 

 

27 APRIL 1915
TUESDAY
Photo of War Records Hut.
1915   APRIL 28
WEDNESDAY
Bdes not seen by Gullet.
5th AFA Bde.
12th Inf. Bde.
 

Collecting Matl for
Military Hist.
Specialist		 Specialist
Artillery.  

Machine Gun.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Tracks Rlys
(Pioneers
(Tunnellers

Engineering
Medical
{Y.M.C.A., Comforts
{Fund etc.
AAVC Matson
Law Brissenden
or Glasgows
Cohort MI. offr.
Schools - w special
reference to Duntroon
Wd save a lot of inquiry - must be done by big men

A. Flying Corps Records.

 

1915  APRIL 30
FRIDAY
Gulletts address.
64 St. Cumberland
Place
London W1. 

 

1 MAY 1915
SATURDAY
New
Car No: 17,680
Photo. Permit No: 62 - to 30 Nov.
War Museums, ^Depot Staff:  L/Cpl Bailey
3585
1st Army Corps
Salvage.
For War Museums.
Pains Paybook
see Evans.
1915  MAY 2

Sunday
On Return.
See D.A.G.:-
Photographer
3rd Artist.
Letter to the men
re Trophies
see White - will
Gen B. issue it.
Exterior of Ch. Hut
at Havre.
Staff Photo for Bruche 

 

3 MAY  1915
MONDAY
Special Letter. S.6
Victorian Bns.
Special Letter No 7.
Victorian Bns.
E 51 The German Relief M 51 The Wreck
E 5xx M52 Aust aeropl. Cambrai
E 52. Old Anz. Histy xxM 53. War Theatre
M54. The American Soldier.

S.8. Gen White.
S 9 Queensland Bns
S 10 S Aust. Bns
S 11 W.A. Bns
S 12 Tas. Bns.

 

5 MAY 1915
WEDNESDAY
D.R.L.S. 81 17/11/17 Letter to Cadre.
Capt Bean.
Vict. 3230.

 

[*Sydney Sun - by or before November October 1915 published a map of Anzac with place
names marked in (from
wounded soldier at Heliopolis).*]
October 7, 1915.] THE BRITISH-AUSTRALASIAN. IN A WOMEN'S HOSPITAL - see original document 

 

THE BRITISH-AUSTRALASIAN. [October 7, 1915.  AUSTRALASIAN NEWS ITEMS. - see original document

 
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