Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/155/1 - 1915 - 1917 - Part 6

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back abt 7am. Thwaites].
From G.O.G to CO 22 Bn.
Have gained objve from U 23C 1 4
& have connected with 24 Bn on road.
The Huns have strong post at [shorthand]
am bombing them out.
GOG.
3/ May/17
610 am
GOG to 22 Bn.
Huns are reinforcing Rd
from rear & also trenches on left rear Reinct
of Reinct are being attacked w bombs
& minnies on left. Rfts urgently
wanted. GS. 3/4/27. 9.55 am

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Message No 3
GOG.
to 22 Bn.
stll holding 0G2 from U23 C .1. 4
have been reinforced by details of 21 Bn &
23 Bn. Have established 5 ports in C.T.
running from OG 2 at U 23 C O 1 to
U 22 D 9½ O to protect flank.
to protect flank.
Ammunition is running short. Huns still massing
in trenches U 23 c. Our heavy artillery
is dropping in our own trenches in vicinity of
U 23 C2. 4.
Can any informatn be given as to positn
on left as in event of a heavy c/attack
we may get cut off from directn of
Bullecourt. Reinfts are still wanted for OG1 & OG2.
GOG C Coy
3.5.17 3.10 pm 

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This ws result of a mistake
and makes
no difference
at all. 
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Messsage No 4.
From Lt G.O.G. to 22 Bn.
21 Bn refused to take any responsibility
More than half OG2. can arrangements be made
to rfce me Otherwise our rt fl. may
be left open.
GOG
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8.5 pm 

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Some Gallipoli details.
from Col Jackson GSO 1 3rd Aust Div.
Aug. 7 1915 This morning
Jackson had to take the
7 Glosters & the SWelsh Pioneers
up Chailak Dere. They
were stopped by heavy rifle
fire. That night they were
put in with the N.Zealanders.
The 7 Glosters did magnificently; later
they came out without an offr &
with only junior NCOs. The
S. Welsh Pioneers were disappointing
 - some got in but
without their tools.
 X This a/c is
certainly right.
Jackson is a far
better man to
trust than Antill. 

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Aug 9. 1915
Sept. 10 1917
Col. Jackson, then GS.O. 111 13^th Divn,
tells me tt he had to lead Baldwin & the COs
of his Bde up the Chailak Dere on Aug
8/9 early in order to show them / way
they wd have to go tt night. There ws
no possibility of mistaking / way.
Later / next morning at 3 am.
Jackson ws to have gone up to / head
o this valley. He cd not get there
till 5 am. so congested ws it w
mules, men etc of N.Z. Force.
Baldwin (he says) certainly chose / other
way because he found this way blocked.
Evacuatn. X
On last night at Gallipoli, J sd,
he found his way last parties of 600 (AB &
[*Really (Gh&Cz)*] C pties) were all ready to go off before/ other divns
arrived. He wanted the men to be put
into one of the 3 waiting barges & taken off
but Antill wdn't hear of it on any acct.
J. went & got Smythe's assent, & Patons &
went back to Antill - but A. flew off the
handle: & these men had to be kept there waiting
for the B & C. pties from the right before they cd be
cleared.