Charles, E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/4/1 - April 1915 - Part 2

62  9
7.43 Moment our men started to
land shrapnel ws on to them again.
Bacchante gets in at them again.
9 am only fired one.
7.50 Same gun [Shorthand] afar- just over
disembarking [Shorthand]
Swiftsure getting in South
Side of point. Bacchante on N.
diagram - see original document
Euryabus firing shrapnel
Probably gun crew dashing into gun pit.
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Firing on shore a little aft 7.30.
Men on crest of high hill to left.
Did you [Shorthand]
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8-8.15 more firing.
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8.30 short spell of [Shorthand]
8.45 getting down shoulder of hill
9.
 

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First 2 boats lost 50[Shorthand] 20 [Shorthand]
a machine gun.
diagram - see original document
(see also next page ) →

[*(sounded as t covering an attack)*]
62  11
8.30 Swiftsure firing - cant see shell so
prob. dropping in valley
2nd [Shorthand] alongside. (Ribble).

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49 trawlers
62     14

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Perfect day
9 o'c. another tow going ashore when shrapnel
[Shorthand] over it.
Our H.Q. on 705 passed at abt 7.30
Balloon coming in close.
9.25  another burst [Shorthand]
9.45  Heavy / near battery 2 near P of W.
2 near Hessen betw queen
Rapid [Shorthand] gun firing on ridge
Next near Minnewaska
Obs ws [Shorthand] ashore same gun fire
Explodes 2 2
 

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^x indicates positions on which [Shorthand]

seen our men at 9 am
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10 am.
Continuous [Shorthand]
MccKays [Shorthand]
[Shorthand]
Mountain [Shorthand]

10.30. Derfflinger away.
Filling up wireless stn.
little jetty found
on getting ashore at 10.15 found
D.H.Q in small gully [Shorthand]
Shrapnel [Shorthand]] dropping thick
Gen White, Glasfurd Blamey Howse Foote.
Signalling is were not very good
Fixing up of [Shorthand] rather
slow
By 10.30 wireless was up
with engine running
Boys digging out place for H.Q
Turkish [Shorthand] being examined
 

62  16
12^th Col Clark [Shorthand]
Col. Hawley. [Shorthand]
11^th Capt Annear [Shorthand] Getting [[int?ly]]
Lieut M Donald wounded
Sergt. Seccombe old S.A.
[Shorthand]
Corpl.
Lieut Walker [Shorthand] severe
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Co. L.M. Sergt McCubbin[Shorthand]
Sergt Wilson wounded. knee landing
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1pm 25^th 1st New Zealand [Shorthand] 
landing.
Left flank
2nd Brigade signalled for
reinforcements.
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Gen. when he landed had a
man hit next to him & killed
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Firing much [Shorthand] on left.
So far in first operation I
hear there are abt 250 [Shorthand]
[Shorthand]
 

62 17
Ammunition supply for 10th
Message sent to troops from
D.H.Q. Heard incidentally the 23rd  [Shorthand]
is getting on.
Engineers making road
Queen ws shelling
Signallers look out seems [Shorthand] 
1.30 shelling beach where N Z reinforcing
Our left being pressed N Z 2nd Bn
attacking
2nd B. going to [Shorthand] left now
2 o'c machine gun going [Shorthand] on our 
left
[Shorthand] from Triumph

Bullet has quite a soft whistle
first I heard it were bees
Some have a shriek like
shrapnel
Fellow with wounded eye
tells us they were nearly
cut up round left flank
Now Reinforced.
" I'm an unlucky bastard"
2.10 heavy firing on left.
Heavier firing on left 2.30
only one ships [Shorthand] at [[?]]
 

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If I am plugged & anyone
gets this diary theyll probably
think that I was ^either tight or
something very unnerved when I wrote it. The
fact was it was written by
night when no candles were

to be had & I had to do as best
I could in the moonlight. On 
some nights the xxx sky was clear

& one cd see fairly well.
On others I simply had to place
the lines by guess work & many
of them are written over one
another. I have been thro' the
worst of the notes since with pen

62 19
bec. diff of moving targets.
Firing getting more & more to left
Shrapnel shelling [Shorthand]
queen getting at them.
Big gun on left hear first before
2.38 Very lively Cross fire shrapnell
& rifle fire.
String of wounded men [Shorthand]
Turks shelling 2 [Shorthand]
landing. Observing well
done
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Enemy worked round our left flank
This was reinforced by N.Z. &
2nd Bn. - The guns in 
gully to the N of us cd
not be located & all the [Shorthand]
they were pumping shrapnell into an
 

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Sniping all night. Some [[?]]
attack especially on McKay on left?
At 2.15 we had lost communication
They had to charge with the bayonet
several times. Casualties I bel.
abt 1200. Some [Shorthand]
off

62  21
unfortunate party on the furthest 
ridge. The N.Z. brigade had [Shorthand]
& was in the firing line before [[enemy?]]
The 3rd [Shorthand] had suffered heavily
Col. Clarke dead. 2nd in C
wounded. Savanell of the 1st
I believe fought like a tiger.
By evening we were holding a
We held 2 ridges & one [[?]]
[Shorthand]There were very steep gullies
[Shorthand]in between. The 3rd brigade hung on
splendidly all day But was very
heavily tried
Gen Ian Hamilton hopes they'll dig

The Australian sailors have just got a
submarine [Shorthand] & torpedoed
Turkish ship.
 

62  22
Warships were firing all night. We
heard that the 29th divn had landed
but not made very much [Shorthand].
We got no guns ashore exc. one
& the Mtn battery.
One of the
Mtn. battery xxxx lost its
English officer & 2 native officers.
About 4 o'c my old brother [[?]]
was hit by a bullet.
Col. Howse tells me he
thinks it was shot [[?]] from
communication trench of 
the Turks. Their
Opposite to the landing was
[[from?]] a blockhouse on a point.
As the Destroyers landing the 1st
N.Z. Brigade [[?]] bn destroyers two
Turkish guns made very pretty practice
Bursting shell after shell
over them from behind the hills