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TRENCHING AT GALLIPOLI

   [Illustration: Dugouts]




TRENCHING AT GALLIPOLI

THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A
NEWFOUNDLANDER WITH THE ILL-FATED
DARDANELLES EXPEDITION

BY
JOHN GALLISHAW

_ILLUSTRATED WITH
PHOTOGRAPHS_

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1916




Copyright, 1916, by
THE CENTURY CO.

_Published, October, 1916_




TO
PROFESSOR CHARLES TOWNSEND COPELAND

OF ALL THAT HARVARD HAS GIVEN ME I VALUE MOST
THE FRIENDSHIP AND CONFIDENCE OF "COPEY"




CONTENTS


  CHAPTER                                                      PAGE

     I GETTING THERE                                              3

    II THERE                                                     33

   III TRENCHES                                                  63

    IV DUGOUTS                                                   93

     V WAITING FOR THE WAR TO CEASE                             123

    VI NO MAN'S LAND                                            141

   VII WOUNDED                                                  164

  VIII HOMEWARD BOUND                                           192

    IX "FEENISH"                                                224




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


                                                               PAGE

  Dugouts                                            _Frontispiece_

  Lord Kitchener talking to some Australians at Anzac             9

  Scene at Lancashire Landing, Cape Helles                       27

  Allies landing reinforcements under heavy fire of Turks
    in Dardanelles                                               38

  Troops at the Dardanelles leaving for the landing beach        47

  A remarkable view of a landing party in the Dardanelles        57

  Australians in trench on Gallipoli Peninsula, using the
    periscope                                                    67

  First line of Allies' trench zigzagging along parallel
    to the Turkish trenches                                      78

  Washing day in war-time                                        95

  Cleaning up after coming down from the trenches at Suvla      114

  Landing British troops from the transports at the
    Dardanelles under protection of the battleships             131

  Australians in the trenches consider clothes a superfluity    157

  Some of the barbed wire entanglements near Seddel Bahr
    are still in position                                       175

  A British battery at work on the Peninsula                    186

  With the French at Seddel Bahr                                203

  Where troops landed in Dardanelles, showing Fort
    Sed-ne-behi battered to pieces by Allied Fleet              213




TRENCHING AT GALLIPOLI




The reader is hereby cautioned against regarding this narrative as in
any way official.

It is merely a record of the personal experiences of a member of the
First Newfoundland Regiment, but the incidents described all actually
occurred.




TRENCHING AT GALLIPOLI




CHAPTER I

GETTING THERE


"Great Britain is at War."

The announcement came to Newfoundland out of a clear sky. Confirming
it, came the news of the assurances of loyalty from the different
colonies, expressed in terms of men and equipment. Newfoundland was
not to be outdone. Her population is a little more than two hundred
thousand, and her isolated position made garrisons unnecessary. Her
only semblance of military training was her city brigades. People
remembered that in the Boer War a handful of Newfoundlanders had
enlisted in Canadian regiments, but never before had there been any
talk of Newfoundland sending a contingent made up entirely of her own
people and representing her as a colony. From the posting of the
first notices bearing the simple message, "Your King and Country Need
You," a motley crowd streamed into the armory in St. John's. The city
brigades, composed mostly of young, beautifully fit athletes from