Category: History - European

The Tenth (Irish) Division in Gallipoli

Within ten days of the outbreak of the War, before even the Expeditionary Force had left England, Lord Kitchener appealed for a hundred thousand recruits, and announced that six new divisions would be formed from them. These six divisions, which were afterwards known as the Fi...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I

Within ten days of the outbreak of the War, before even the Expeditionary Force had left England, Lord Kitchener appealed for a hundred thousand recruits, and announced that six...

2. CHAPTER II

The immediate result of the warning received on June 27th, which was officially confirmed on July 1st, was to throw an enormous amount of work upon officers and N.C.O.’s. Alread...

3. CHAPTER III

“Then lift the flag of the Last Crusade And fill the ranks of the Last Brigade; March on to the fields where the world’s remade And the Ancient Dreams come true.”—_T. M. Kettle._

4. CHAPTER IV

“So desperate a battle cannot be described. The Turks came on again and again, fighting magnificently, calling upon the name of God. Our men stood to it, and maintained, by many...

5. CHAPTER V

If you sail up the western coast of the Gallipoli Peninsula, soon after passing Anzac Cove, you will notice that the hills which have fringed the shore all the way from Cape Hel...

6. CHAPTER VI

“If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you, Except the will that says to them ‘Hol...

7. CHAPTER VII

“Oh, bad the march, the weary march, beneath these alien skies, But good the night, the friendly night, that soothes our tired eyes; And bad the war, the weary war, that keeps u...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Before continuing to describe the doings of the 30th and 31st Brigades after their withdrawal from the Kiretch Tepe Sirt, a word must be said about the units which were attached...

9. CHAPTER IX

At the beginning of September a portion of the Divisional Artillery arrived in the Peninsula. The three brigades (54th, 55th and 56th) which sailed from England with the Divisio...

10. CHAPTER X

A multitude of memories cluster together: dry, sand-floored gullies, thirsty men crowded round a well, Indians grooming their mules, lithe, half-naked Australians, parched, sun-...