Gallipoli Diary, Volume II

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Title: Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2
Author: Ian Hamilton
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GALLIPOLI DIARY
BY GENERAL

SIR IAN HAMILTON, G.C.B.
AUTHOR OF "A STAFF OFFICER'S SCRAP-BOOK," ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II
NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY 1920
PRINTED BY UNWIN BROTHERS, LTD.--WOKING--ENGLAND
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[Illustration: "Central News" phot.
BRAITHWAITE, SIR IAN AND FREDDIE MAITLAND]

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
XIII. K.'S ADVICE AND THE P.M.'S ENVOY 1
XIV. THE FORCE--REAL AND IMAGINARY 25
XV. SARI BAIR AND SUVLA 52
XVI. KAVAK TEPE ATTACK COLLAPSES 86
XVII. THE LAST BATTLE 120
XVIII. MISUNDERSTANDINGS 144
XIX. THE FRENCH PLAN 163
XX. LOOS AND SALONIKA 196

XXI. THE BEGINNING OF THE END 234
APPENDIX I. STATEMENT ON ARTILLERY BY
BRIGADIER-GENERAL SIR H. S. BAIKIE 279
APPENDIX II. NOTES BY LIEUT.-COL. C. ROSENTHAL
RELATING TO ARTILLERY AT ANZAC 292
APPENDIX III. SIR IAN HAMILTON'S INSTRUCTIONS
RELATING TO THE SUVLA OPERATIONS 298
APPENDIX IV. INSTRUCTIONS TO MAJOR-GEN. H. DE LISLE
335
INDEX 339

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
BRAITHWAITE, SIR IAN, AND FREDDIE MAITLAND
Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
MAJOR-GEN. SIR G. F. ELLISON, K.C.M.G. 6
LIEUT.-GEN. SIR A. G. HUNTER-WESTON, K.C.B., D.S.O 22
SUVLA FROM CHUNUK BAIR 54
GENERAL SIR W. R. BIRDWOOD, BART., G.C.M.G., K.C.B. 80
LIEUT.-GEN. SIR A. J. GODLEY, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. 84
GENERAL BAILLOUD 146
FISH FROM THE ENEMY 170
MARSHAL LIMAN VON SANDERS 182

CREMATING THE ENEMY DEAD 256
MAP
SUVLA AND ANZAC At end of Volume
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GALLIPOLI DIARY
CHAPTER XIII
K.'S ADVICE AND THE P.M.'S ENVOY
11th July, 1915. Worked in my office from early morning till 12.45.
The whole scheme for to-morrow's attack is cut and dried, according to
our cloth: time tables fixed and every round counted.
Freddy Stopford and his Staff turned up from Mudros. Stopford in very
good form. The first thing he did was to deliver himself of a personal
message from Lord K. He (Stopford) wrote it down, in the ante-room,
the moment he left the presence and I may take it as being as good as
verbatim. Here it is:--
"Lord Kitchener told me to tell you he had no wish to interfere with the
man on the spot, but from closely watching our actions here, as well as
those of General French in Flanders, he is certain that the only way to
make a real success of an attack is by surprise. Also, that when the
surprise ceases to be operative, in so far that the advance is checked
and the enemy begin to collect from all sides to oppose the attackers,

then, perseverance becomes merely a useless waste of life. In every
attack there seems to be a moment when success is in the assailant's
grasp. Both the French and ourselves at Arras and Neuve Chapelle lost
the opportunity."
Well said! K. has made Stopford bring me in his pocket the very text
for what I wanted to say to him. Only my grumbling thoughts find
expression by my pen but I have plenty of others and my heart has its
warm corner for K. whenever he cares to come in.
As I told Stopford, K. has not only anticipated my advice but has dived
right down into this muddle of twentieth century war and finds lying at
the bottom of it only the old original idea of war in the year 1. At our
first landing the way was open to us for just so long as the surprise to
the Turks lasted. That period here, at the Dardanelles, might be taken as
being perhaps twice as long as it would be on the Western front which
gave us a great pull. The reason was that land communications were
bad and our troops on the sea could move thrice as fast as the Turks on
their one or two bad roads. Yet, even so, there was no margin for
dawdling. Hunter-Weston and d'Amade had tried their best to use their
brief surprise breathing space