[109] Compare Ashmead Bartlett’s Dispatches from the Dardanelles, p. 118.
[110] John Masefield’s account of the soldier’s mind in this battle is a fine instance of imaginative sympathy. Gallipoli, pp. 72–81.
[111] This 2nd French Division was composed as follows: 3rd Brigade Metropolitaine (C.O. Colonel Ruef), comprising the 176ème Régiment d’Infanterie (Commandant Costemalle), and the 2ème Régiment de Marche d’Afrique (Lieut.-Colonel Hautville); Brigade Coloniale (C.O. Général de Brigade Simonin, who afterwards commanded the division), comprising the 7ème Régiment Colonial (Lieut.-Colonel Bordeaux), partly Senegalese, and the 8ème Régiment Colonial (Lieut.-Colonel d’Adhémar), also partly Senegalese. The Division had six batteries of “75’s” and two of mountain guns. The Corps of the two Divisions had two regiments of Chasseurs d’Afrique, four 120 mm. guns, four 155 mm. guns (long), six 155 mm. guns (short), besides detachments of engineers, supply, army service, and ambulance.
[112] The brigade consisted of the Wellington Battalion (Lieut.-Colonel W. G. Malone, a splendid soldier and man, afterwards killed at Anzac), the Auckland (Lieut.-Colonel A. Plugge), the Canterbury (Lieut.-Colonel D. M. Stewart), and the Otago (Lieut.-Colonel T. W. M‘Donald).
[113] The 2nd Australian Brigade consisted of the 5th Victoria Battalion (Lieut.-Colonel Wanliss), the 6th (Lieut.-Colonel M‘Nicol), the 7th (Lieut.-Colonel Garside), and the 8th (Lieut.-Colonel Bolton).
[114] See Australia in Arms, pp. 143–156.
[115] With the Twenty-ninth Division, p. 94.
[116] Ibid., p. 112.
[117] Australia in Arms, p. 158.
[118] Australia in Arms, p. 166.