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Description: | Two ms letters (20pp in total, with 4pp wordprocessed transcript), both dated 6 June 1915, written to a cousin by an Assistant Clerk RN in the battleship HMS PRINCE OF WALES giving a very detailed retrospective account of the Anzac landing at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, with interesting references to the splendid qualities displayed by the Australian, New Zealand and Indian troops both in action and when wounded, the fierce Turkish resistance to the initial landings at Gaba Tepe, the very effective Turkish shelling of the troops on the beachhead, bombardments by PRINCE OF WALES in support of the landing force, retaliatory shelling of the Allied warships by the Turks and Gregory’s time ashore in Malta when PRINCE OF WALES was in dock there in late May; together with an ms biographical note (1p) on Gregory and a photograph of him as a junior paymaster officer.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Gregory, B O'F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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