Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/5/1 - April - May 1915 - Part 10

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6 am. Glasfurd at 6 signalled
Landing effected. Cover from
Steep hills.

9.0 am.
 

Sig^s.
6am Glasfurd at 6 signalled
that landing effected &
high

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Lieut. Rumbolt (now adjt) of 10th landed well N. of Fishermans Hut. Several boats
landed [shorthand] 39 ones, onto wh [shorthand] got from hilltop. Party rushed Fishermans Hut
Lieut. Talbot Smith shot an officer there - every man searched him. He ws a German.
50 men had bn in the place & it stank as did all T. camps [shorthand] the trench I went
up today - & all T. camps (es. camp of 4 tents on rt & camp of 4 tents on left
wh passed this day). Rumbolt says he went, up with 1/2 platoon of his
bn & various  scraps, & Col Clarke of 12^th, up second gully past Fishermans
hut & found themselves on slope abt 1 mile to N of where ought to be. Cd
see & hear fighting in that direction.
Whilst xxx in scrub T. lying 20yds away blazed at R
& missed. Man who was out ground scouting (there ws one on either
flank) hit him saw Turk firing & hit him over head with his clubbed
rifle. He ws sent back under two men as prisoner.
The party pushed up the spur opposite it - or
rather up gully (Rumbolt thinks 237 m-n to about o. or t).
They placed themselves by bearings of two points to North & lakes.
Then cut south across country to 224 d 1 or 4 where
joined best in line for counter attack of Turks at 10 am - after
Brand had taken three guns. They took a maxim on to crest -
most of fire came from crest. Not many Turks agst them from first.
Col. Clarke was killed in scrub on plateau-  he wore same Brown
belt & glasses & a sniper got him from behind. "We hadn't time in
that first rush to clear place of snipers as we went.". They got into
Turks in trench half way up hill - a few waited for bayonet; most
were shot at short range as bolted. Clarke ws not killed imd,
& was trying to write an order when he died.
Rumbolt was at
Party got onto destroyers at Sea abt midnight, long
before sighting land. Destroyers came in & ^ they  began to get into
small boats abt 4. Could just make out beach & land
as came ashore. By time got up  to trench was it was light eno'
to see everything.
[* A very inaccurate a/c
[Either Rumbolt or I was hopelessly at fault
R. ws left with a pln on beach N. of Ari Burnu on landg.]
(C.E.W.B.
6/5/20.)] *]
 

Q. Elizabeth.           Charlemagne               Askold.
Inflexible.                                                          ______
____                          Jaureguiberry                  ____         
Queen                     Gaulois                               ___
Agamemnon         Suffren            
L. Nelson                  Henri IV
   ___                             _______
Queen                          ______
London                          ____
P. of Wales
Implacable
Cornwallis
Swiftsure
Triumph.
90's
Albion
Majestic
Canopus
Vengeance
Goliath
P. George.

___
Bacchante
Euryalus
Dartmouth
Dublin
Talbot
Doris
Minerva
Many tbds Submarines
torp. bts, trawlers,
fleet sweepers.
_____

NZ & A landed strength 11, 721.                                        1
6. a.m. From Maj. Glasfurd. Landing effected betw. 237 W  224 B steep
slopes inland afford cover. Landing appears poss. south of [shorthand]

Ships: Queen, P of W, London (attending)
Triumph, Bacchante on S. [shorthand] covering, Majestic on N. [shorthand]
(Troops in Q. P of W. London.- Malta Ionian, Suffolk, Devanha.)
Day [shorthand] a signal sd: Bombardment _∧ (at Cape Helles) commence at 5 am