Scenery near Suvla Bay
Monday 11th October 1915: We have heard from a Corporal in the East Anglian Royal Engineers serving in Gallipoli: “We have been working at night on barbed wire. One of our party out on night work heard faint cries of “Allah”. The next night the same thing occurred. The third night when they went, the Australians informed them that they had just found out that it was a Turkish sniper shot through both eyes. They brought the poor chap in and he was taken to our hospital”.
“The gullies and waterways are all named out here. We go down Farm Gulley and have to pass by Staffordshire Gulley, Hampshire Lane, Finsbury Vale, New Bedford Road(1) and turn up Radlett Road. Quite city like, you know”.
Source: Bedfordshire Times 12th November 1915
(1) Presumably named after the street in Luton
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