: Sir Ian Hamilton's Despatches from the Dardanelles etc. by Hamilton Ian Wood Evelyn Author Of Introduction Etc - World War 1914-1918 Campaigns Turkey Gallipoli Peninsula

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THE FIRST DESPATCH 1

THE SECOND DESPATCH 43

PRESS BUREAU STATEMENTS 84

VICE-ADMIRAL DE ROBECK'S DESPATCH 89

Map 2 " 32

Map 3 " 64

Brigadier-General R. W. M. Jackson, C.B. " 78

Lieut.-General A. G. Hunter-Weston, C.B. " 82

Map 4 " 96

Map 5 " 116

"What's brave, what's noble, let's do it."

The fire was vividly described by Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, who was looking on. He, with the experience of the Peninsular War, and having witnessed the assaults of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajos, thus portrayed it: "I never before witnessed such a continuous and heavy fire of grape and musketry"; and again: "I had no conception of such a shower of grape." The Bluejacket had remained apparently unconcerned by the carnage, but he realised that the now one-surviving carrier at the Rear end of the ladder was not doing much to help, and thinking that he was addressing a messmate, exclaimed encouragingly, as he half turned his head: "Come on, Bill, let's get our ladder up first," being shot dead as he finished the sentence.

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