Gallipoli Diary

by John Graham Gillam

January 20th.

Finds me in camp with a tent to myself and things working smoothly; everything, as far as humanly possible, is ready for any eventuality, and the Turk, if he tries any tricks, will get his knuckles badly rapped. The K.O.S.B.’s go by to the wild, inspiring strains of the pipes. Everything is bustle—trains shunting, stores coming up, horsemen and guns moving into position, and there is an air of expectancy over everything. And so these random notes come to an end. I am back in camp with the horrors of the Peninsula left behind me for ever. Of those who sailed from England so lightheartedly in March, few are left, but those that remain are attached to each other by invisible fetters. Those strange months—dull and exciting, tragic and humorous, spent under the eye of the enemy on an alien shore—form a common bond between us. All of us now know the full meaning of Life, and all of us have walked, not once, but many times, with Death on the grim Peninsula. We have been beaten—not so much by the enemy as by climatic and geographical conditions; but beaten we are, and nothing remains but to accept defeat like sportsmen.

INDEX

• “A” Battery, [256]
• “A” Beach, [205]
• A.S.C., difficulties of, [107], [130], [200], [311]
• Abercrombie, H.M.S., [146], [186]
• Achi Baba, [45], [58], [68], [72], [73], [77];
• aeroplanes over, [79], [81], [83], [97];
• shells on, [120], [158];
• bombardment from, [179]
• Addison, killed, [48]
• Aeroplane, French, falls in sea, [130];
• English, falls in sea, [177];
• down on Salt Lake, [246]
• Agamemnon, H.M.S., attacked, [101]
• Alaunia, S.S., [169]
• Albion, H.M.S., [119]
• Alexandria, arrival at, [24];
• German liners at, [25];
• description of, [25];
• in hospital at, [165];
• return to, [323]
• Anafarta, [189], [204]
• Anglo-Egyptian, S.S., [168]
• Anzac, [187], [202];
• strafe at, [241]
• Aragon, S.S., [26], [27], [161], [171], [298]
• Arcadian, S.S., [23], [27], [50], [60], [73]
• Armstrong, Captain, [264]
• Ashmead-Bartlett, [87]
• Asia, coast of, [70];
• shelled from, [129];
• heavy shelling from, [135]
• “Asiatic Annie,” [130], [131], [139]
• Askold, [28], [29], [31], [81], [126]
• Aucania, S.S., [29]
• Australians, [78], [79], [96], [156], [162], [204];
• Engineers, [213]
• B9, H.M.S., visited, [116]
• B10, H.M.S., visited, [127]
• “B” Beach, [204]
• Bailey, Major, [273], [294]
• Baker, Sir Randolph, wounded, [244]
• Bakery, [102]
• Balfour, invalided, [177]
• Barlow, Major, [69];
• wounded, [77]
• Baxter, Quartermaster, [224]
• Bayfield, Captain, [27]
• Beadon, Colonel, [55], [56], [59]
• Beckwith, Major, [132]
• Beetleheimer, [119]
• Birch, Lieutenant, [139]
• Birdwood, General, [315]
• Blackburn, Major, [199]
• Blizzard, the great, [272]
• Boomerang Fort, [146];
• captured, [148]
• Bray, [209]
• Brock, [157]
• Bruce, Colonel, [165]
• Bruce’s Ravine, [197]
• Burnt Hill, [204];
• taken and retaken, [211]
• Bush, Captain, [92];
• killed, [122]
• Butler, Lieutenant, [220]
• Byng, General, [282]
• “C” Beach, [203]; badly shelled, [268]
• Canopus, H.M.S., [247], [261]
• Carrington-Smith, Colonel, [47], [48]
• Carver, [43], [54], [73], [75], [136], [212], [225]
• Castra, [220]
• Casualties, [156];
• on beach, [242], [245]
• Cayley, Colonel, [129], [134];
• Brigadier-General, [176];
• narrow escape of, [242], [263], [274], [282]
• Chanak searchlight, [64]
• Chocolate Hill, [202], [204], [206], [211]
• Christmas Day, [307]
• Church Farm, [89], [91]
• “Clapham Junction,” [90], [145], [312]
• Collier, Major, [177];
• leaves, [235]
• Cooke, joins, [235]
• Cooper, [38]
• Costaker, Major, killed, [47]
• Cox, [53], [165], [205]
• D’Amade, General, [26], [27], [50], [61], [80];
• goes home, [95]
• Dardanelles, climate of, [17]
• Davidson, Lieutenant, [47]
• Davy, [55], [136]
• de Lisle, General, [191];
• nearly hit, [264], [298]
• Dent, [125]
• Destroyers, Turkish, sunk, [96]
• De Tott’s Battery, [139]
• Dongola, S.S., [28], [35]
• Doran, General, [114], [117], [119];
• returns to England, [129]
• Drabis, [288]
• Dublin Fusiliers, [29], [45], [97], [257]
• Duff, [79], [192]
• Dugout, on fire, [269]
• Edey, [173]
• Eighth Corps Gully, new camp at, [266]
• Eighty-eighth Brigade, [27], [74], [77], [206]
• Eighty-seventh Brigade, [67], [206]
• Eighty-sixth Brigade, [29], [77]
• Ekin, Colonel, [243]
• Elphinstone, Louis, [261]
• Enver Pasha, [253]
• Essex Regiment, [28], [30]
• Evans, Sergeant, [73], [75]
• Farmer, Captain, [149];
• invalided, [177]
• Festin, Captain, [75]
• Findlay, [176]
• Flies, [102]
• Foley, Lieutenant, [38], [39], [43], [67], [136]
• Ford, Quartermaster, [55]
• Fraser, Major, [250]
• French battleship attacked, [106]
• Frew, R.A.M.C., [258]
• Fulford, [176]
• Fuller, Colonel, [243], [274]
• Furniture, [262]
• Gaba Tepe, Australians attacked at, [96], [202]
• Gale, heavy, [150], [249]
• Geddes, [191]
• Gee, Captain, [280]
• Geoffrey-Faussett, Colonel, killed, [68]
• Gibbon, Major, [43], [60], [192]
• Gibraltar Hill, [259]
• Glory, H.M.S., [242], [247]
• Gloucester Yeomanry, [203]
• Goeben, [123]
• Golden Horn, the, frozen, [20]
• Goliath, H.M.S., [81];
• torpedoed, [84]
• Gostling, [47]
• Grant, [286]
• Gregory, [83], [95]
• Grogan, [55]
• Gully Beach, [98]
• Gun Hill, visited, [250]
• Gurkha Beach, [98]
• Gurkha Bluff, [95]
• Gurkhas, [69], [82], [83], [89], [95], [169], [204]
• Gwendy, killed, [173]
• Hadow, Captain, [213], [226];
• Major, [237]
• Hamilton, Sir Ian, exhortation of, [29];
• reported leaving, [248]
• Hampshire Regiment, [26], [45], [193]
• Harding, Quartermaster, [143]
• Haricot Redoubt, [139];
• taken by French, [142]
• Helles, evacuation commenced, [314];
• evacuated, [321]
• Horse of Troy, [33]
• Horton, Major, [136]
• Howard de Walden, Lord, [220], [242], [254], [255], [258], [293]
• Howell, wounded, [208]
• Hunt, joins, [259]
• Hunter-Weston, General, [30], [82]
• Huskisson, Major, [102], [136];
• Colonel, [302]
• Hyslop, Captain, [78], [80], [94], [138]
• Imbros, [71];
• beauty of, [104];
• bombarded, [108];
• go to, [217];
• rides in, [219]
• Implacable, H.M.S., [35], [87], [119]
• Japanese bombs, [100]
• Jeans, Fleet Surgeon, [214], [239]
• Jennings, [96], [102]
• Jones, Sergeant, [224], [283];
• killed, [303]
• Karakol Dagh, [253]
• King’s Own Scottish Borderers, [26], [51], [84], [197], [324]
• Kitchener, Lord, arrives, [265]
• Koe, Colonel, [51]
• Koebel, Captain, [169];
• dies of wounds, [321]
• Krithia, [56];
• bombarded, [73], [77], [89], [123], [151]
• Krithia Nullah, [90]
• Kum Kale, [81];
• shelled from, [125]
• Lachard, joins, [232]
• Laird, [50], [102]
• Lala Baba, [202];
• badly shelled, [268]
• Lancashire Fusiliers, [33], [36], [75], [78];
• raid on, [90], [95], [126], [199]
• Lancashire Landing, [95]
• Lancashire Territorials, [77]
• “Lancaster Terrace,” [100]
• Lang, Major, [92]
• Lee, Major, [52];
• killed, [67]
• Leith Walk, [312]
• Lemnos, arrival at, [26], [100];
• invalided to, [159]
• Leslie, Quartermaster, [65]
• Lewington, Private, [218]
• Loce, Commander, [245]
• Lone Tree Gully, [212]
• Lord Nelson, H.M.S., [142]
• Lowland Division arrives, [150]
• Lucas, Major, [112]
• McDougall, Arthur, Lieutenant, [234], [245]
• McLoughlin, [287]
• Majestic, H.M.S., torpedoed, [105]
• Malta, [24]
• Manchester Regiment, [78]
• Manitou, S.S., attacked, [27]
• Marshall, Brigadier-General, [112]
• Massena, [301]
• Matthews, Captain, joins, [261];
• leaves, [264]
• Mathias, Captain, [115]
• Meltem, [18]
• Middlesex Yeomanry, [118], [206]
• Milbanke, Sir John, killed, [209]
• Miller, [154]
• Milne, Captain, [78]
• Milward, Lieutenant, R.N., [31], [33], [34], [111], [132]
• Monro, [192]
• Moon, horse killed, [156]
• Moore, V.C., [194]
• Morris, Machine Gun Officer, [243], [250], [252];
• ill, [263]
• Morto Bay, [81];
• bathing at, [106]
• Mowatt, [74], [99]
• Mudros, [100]
• Mules, Indian, [76]
• Munro, General, [248];
• arrives, [251]
• Munster Fusiliers, [29], [45], [71], [97], [199], [257]
• Napier, General, killed, [47]
• Neave, invalided, [177]
• Neuralia, hospital ship, [163]
• Neville, [168]
• Newfoundland Regiment joins, [231]
• New Zealanders, [74], [77], [156], [233]
• Nightingale, [191]
• North, [127]
• Notts and Derby Yeomanry, [206]
• O’Hara, Major, [39], [40], [41], [42], [51], [57], [59], [122], [177];
• leaves, [255];
• Colonel, [298]
• Owen, [49]
• Panaghia, [219]
• Panton, Captain, [27], [53], [176], [255]
• Parish, General, [80]
• Parker, Captain, [52]
• Partridge, S.S., [301]
• Patterson, Colonel, [45], [58]
• Pearson, Colonel, [277]
• Peninsula Press, [96]
• Percival, General, [225], [263], [293]
• Petro, [212]
• Phillips, Captain, [51], [54], [56], [96], [118];
• tent shared with, [129], [136], [212];
• wounded, [230]
• “Pimple,” the, [228];
• shelled by Monitors, [263]
• Pink Farm, [54], [55], [56], [75], [89];
• Brigade H.Q. near, [91], [122];
• razed by shell fire, [153]
• Poole, [136]
• Prince Adil, yachting with, [168]
• Prince George, H.M.S., [81], [135], [228];
• hit, [240], [242], [261], [322]
• Prosser, [122]
• Punjabis, [78], [79]
• Queen Elizabeth, H.M.S., [28], [77], [99]
• Rabbit Island, [192]
• Raglan, H.M.S., [186]
• Reave, [93]
• Reid, Captain, [27], [65];
• killed, [67]
• Reid, Signal Officer, [243]
• Revel, killed, [140]
• Ritchie, [102]
• River Clyde, S.S., [29], [32], [33], [38], [47], [51], [93], [199], [301]
• Roberts, [92]
• Rochdale, Lord, [80]
• Royal Scots, [30], [34], [71], [110], [138];
• badly cut up, [149]
• Saint-Louis, [119], [189]
• Salt Lake, [208]
• Samothrace, [220]
• Sari Bair, [202]
• Scorpions, [87]
• “Sea View,” [100]
• Sed-el-Bahr, [87];
• French in, [97];
• described, [98]
• Seeang-Bee, S.S., [168], [171]
• Senegalese, [82];
• photographed, [97];
• bathing, [114]
• Sharpshooters, [206]
• Sherwood Foresters, [206]
• Shorto, Major, [136], [183]
• Shuter, Captain, [167]
• Sicilia, hospital ship, [159]
• Sinclair-Thomson, Captain, [47]
• Smart, [116], [311]
• Smith, Quartermaster, [65], [251]
• Snakes, [87]
• South Lancashire Division, [102]
• South Wales Borderers, [87]
• Southland, S.S., [84], [298]
• Steel, Lieutenant, [34], [110];
• death of, [149]
• Stoney, Captain, [47]
• Streidinger, Major, [44], [55]
• Submarine, visit to a French, [122]
• Sudan, hospital ship, [169]
• Suez, arrival at, [324]
• Suvla Bay, landing at, [188];
• bad news from, [196];
• embark for, [201], [202];
• water difficulties at, [214];
• view from, [216];
• nature of country, [222];
• arrangements for evacuation, [293];
• evacuated, [296]
• Swiftsure, H.M.S., [77];
• attacked, [101];
• visit to, [214], [233];
• narrow escape of, [236], [239], [261]
• Talbot, H.M.S., [146]
• Tenth Division, at Salonika, [248]
• Thirteenth Division, [162], [176]
• Thomson, [55], [65], [78], [91], [191]
• Torpedo caught, [133]
• Trafalgar Square, [182]
• Trenches, visit to first-line, [143]
• Tressider, Captain, killed, [149]
• Triumph, H.M.S., torpedoed, [101]
• Turkish wounded, [88]
• Turks, said to be starving, [116]
• Twelve Tree Wood, [149]
• Twenty-ninth Division, [102], [140];
• push forward, [151], [156], [169]
• Unwin, Commander, [293]
• Usher, Captain, [119], [126];
• killed, [136]
• “V” Beach, [32], [81];
• Senegalese at, [82]
• Von Sanders, [96]
• “W” Beach, [32];
• landing at, [35], [51], [62];
• bathing at, [79], [81];
• shelled, [94];
• rejoin at, [173];
• return to, [302]
• Walker, arrives, [242];
• goes to hospital, [260]
• Warham, killed, [174]
• Warwick Yeomanry, [203], [206]
• Way, Captain, [43], [96], [136], [205];
• effect on him of bullets, [241];
• invalided, [260]
• Weatherall, [136], [160]
• Wedgwood, Josiah, M.P., [50]
• West Lowland Engineers C.O., killed, [141]
• “Whistling Rufus,” [238], [247], [252], [253]
• Whitburn, [38]
• Whitby Abbey, S.S., [159], [171], [221]
• White House, [77], [78]
• Williams, [117], [160]
• Williams, Colonel, [45], [55], [69], [78], [91];
• wounded, [124]
• Wilson, Colonel, [138], [149]
• Wood, Captain, [112], [188], [201];
• Major, [235];
• killed, [254], [257]
• Worcester Regiment, [28], [123], [233]
• Worcester Yeomanry, [203], [206]
• “X” Beach, 87th Brigade depot at, [67], [81];
• road to, [127]
• Yen-i-Shehr, [81]
• Yeomanry in action, [206]
• Zion Mule Corps, [45]

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Transcriber’s Note (continued)

Errors in punctuation have been corrected. Inconsistencies in spelling, grammar, capitalisation, and hyphenation are as they appear in the original publication except where noted below:

Page 9 – “echanical” changed to “mechanical” (mechanical transport)

Page 23 – “bauled” changed to “bawled” (bawled by enthusiastic soldiers)