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Description: | “My first three months abroad.”
Typescript copy of the diary of Sgt C C Allport of the 6th Battn of the Lincs Regt. 28 Jun-2 Oct 1915. Sgt Allport served in the Gallipoli campaign. He contracted dysentry in September 1915 and returned to England on 2 October 1915.
7 Aug 1915. “Landed at Sulva Bay at 2 am and form up on Beach.” Describes an attack on Chocolate Hill: “....all the time the Turkish Artillery is very busy and men are falling in all directions...”
9 Aug 1915. Describes an attack on Yilghin Burnu. “After a time I am surprised to find myself alone, the others having been shot or retired to the Crest of the hill. I also go back and find myself next to Captain Croydon and Captain Lewis who are both shot within a minute of each other.”
“... later in evening joined the remnants of our Battn which was just about 100 strong, having lost about six hundred men in about five hours. This day was the most awful I have ever experienced.”
21 Aug 1915. “Leave beach for big attack 3pm and ordered to advance in broad daylight across the Salt Lake Plain, and of course we are again well peppered with shrapnel.”
5 Sep 1915. “Owing to some miscarriage we get no rations at all, and we are 24 hours without food, and only half a pint of water per man.”
Copy made in 1982. | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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