Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/33/1 - 1915

AWM38

Official History,

1914-18 War: Records of C.E.W. Bean,

Official Historian.

Diaries and Notebooks

Item Number: 3DRL606/33/1

Title: Notebook, 1915

Includes a few pages of notes on the Turkish

guns at Gallipoli.

Records

anzac

& ships guns either

to

[[?]] In Tunnels

Enemy's Gun

Original DIARY No 33.

AWM38 3DRL 606 ITEM 33 [1]                                                                     DIARIES AND NOTES OF C.E.W. BEAN

The use of these diaries and notes is subject to condition   laid

down in the terms of gift to the Australian War Memorial. But,

apart from those terms, I wish the following circumstances to be

brought to the notice of every reader and writer who may use them. 

These writings represent only what at the moment of making them I believe to be true. The diaries were jotted down almost

daily with the object of recording what was then in the writer's mind. Often he wrote them when very tired and half asleep;

also, not infrequently, what he believed to be true was not so-

but it does not follow that he always discovered this, or remembered to correct mistakes when discovered. Indeed,

he could not always remember that he had written them.

These records should, therefore, be used with great caution, as relating only what their author, at the time of writing, believed.

Further, he cannot, of course, vouch for the accuracy of statements made to him by others and here recorded. But he

did try to ensure such accuracy by consulting, as far as possible,

those who had seen or otherwise taken part in the events. The constant falsity of second-hand evidence (on which large proportion of war stories are founded.) was impressed upon

him by the second or third day of the Gallipoli campaign, notwithstanding that those who passed on such stories usually

themselves believed them to be true. All second-hand evidence herein be read with this in mind.

16 Sept., 1946 AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL C.E.W. BEAN.

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Enemy's Guns at Anzac

Anzac 19 [[may?]] 46 opt us & ships guns either    

ashore or afloat. Either ships or forts.

 3. fired guns Gaba Tepe & 12 -14 pdr. In tunnels                                       & knocked out by [[?]].

2 4 in

2 on wire glass from

Olive grove 4 (6) field guns

H.Q. battery wd w be 5604 moved abt a loy

( 16 emplacement - puffs fired-)

2  Bn How’s on 400 yds track 56 W1…

2 guns (14 in 1. 3 in) 47 & 4 always there

alway 2 heavy (9 in) guns on 900 contour Kili Bahr

Lord Nelson on things were.

Gun Ridge guns always there - principally

mountain guns- sometimes 2 sometimes

4 often pushed [[Cox?]]

On may 19. Sykes N3 batty was [[?]] betw. Popes & quinns

The men on dead mans Ridge had at

least 7 bullets in their back

On [[?]] gun all | time had nothing to do

exc. five between Popes & Russells top

At this time one [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] 4.5 How baty.

We had abt 32 [[?]] in [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] [[?]]

& one baty 4.5 Hows. The [[?]] in Hows were

 not here then

Scrubby Knoll - 2 - 4in & some [[?]] [[?]]

[[?]] at scrubby K.

[[?]] Batty ( Bessell Brown [[?]] [[?]] ) we always

there & sand pit guns also (field guns)-

A [[?]] they bought up some heavy

guns here.

[[?]] 105 w l ( 3 field [[?]] 1 4.2 How 1 8in or 9in)

105 U 7

9we held on NZ batty on Russells top, 6 [[?]] guns

on Russells Top X some firing from tunnels

at ^ [[?]] flank of infy line) They were shooting [[?]]

They cd take [[front?]] J. Jolly & Quinns.

Olive [[?]] ws taken on by [[?]] & Burges,

By Hughes & Burgess.

Tow 4.5 Hows on beach took Analarta & Lone

pine all [[?]]. One on [[?]] Plateau

(L.P. for J Jolly) & one in gully behind gun Bridge

H.Q. They were afterwds shifts to left in

Auf (Emplacements had bn made [[?]]

[[ranges taken [[?]]).

Analarta guns were in tunnels & [[?]]

from 20 yds inside tunnels.

NZ [[?]] [[?]] 2 men stayed out

36 hours & saw these guns & the tunnels

more a sketch - quite early. ships after

 

4.25

Every Inf Bde had immediately support Night

[[?]] day [[?]] [[?]] on [[?]] Inf line & always [[?]]

also additional.

One gun wd [[?]] [[?]] at once

(Practices [[?]] [[?]])

[[?]] [[?]] Suvla w 31 guns

they  [[?]] w 4.