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Description: | Ms notebook (73pp), including diary entries, 19 March - 18 December 1915, with ts transcription (16pp), written whilst serving as a Private with a Royal Naval Division Field Ambulance at Gallipoli, describing the failed attempts by British troops to force the Dardanelles (March 1915), the landings at Cape Hellas (April 1915), the ferrying of the dead and wounded onto waiting ships and sailing to Port Said where there was a review of the Division by General Sir Ian Hamilton, embarking for Lemnos and being diverted to assist the survivors of a torpedoed ship, the Royal Naval bombardment of Achi Baba and Krithia and the successful landing of RND, French and Australian troops (August 1915), constructing a temporary hospital and his duties as a medic and stretcher bearer, an unsuccessful counter attack by Turkish forces and capturing hundreds of Turkish prisoners of war. Also included is a list of all the equipment carried by a Field Ambulance and a breakdown of its chain of command, a series of Turkish words with English translations and the alphabet in Morse code.
Cataloguer JHK
Catalogue date 2007-11-19 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Starkey, W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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