Friday 13th August : The adjutant of the 1st/5th Bedfords tells us that they made no attack last night. In the event only 163rd Brigade of 54th Division took part, along with 53rd (Welsh) Division. The attack was unsuccessful and stragglers returning to camp during the night who said Brigades had been wiped out. Fortunately, this has proved untrue(1). The enemy are currently shelling the bay and the camp without doing any damage – the troops having entrenched in case of renewed shelling.
Source: X550/6/8
(1) The attacks on Kavak Tepe and Tekke Tepe after crossing the Anafarta Plain were a failure and prompted consideration of evacuating Suvla Bay. It was this attack in which “Sandringham Company” as it was known, of 1st/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, having been largely recruited from the royal estate, was reported to have disappeared in a cloud over the battlefield. It was later discovered that many of the men had been killed and others captured.
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