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Dardanelles and
Gallipoli campaign showing Gallipoli landings at Anzac cove, 25th April
1915. Britihsh, Australian and New Zealand troops including the Lancashire
regiment are shown in First World War military prints. To purchase any of
these military art prints use our secure ordering facility.
Gallipoli Campaign February 1915 to January 1916.
Instigated by Winston Churchill, this failed campaign, fought mainly
between the British ,Australian and New Zealand (Anzac) forces who suffered heavy
losses (total allied casualties 36,000 troops) against the Turkish forces
defending the Dardanelle's. The reason for the campaign was to force their
way through the Dardanelle's to link up with Russia.
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The Making of a Legend, The Landing at Anzac Cove by Lambert.
Landing at dawn on 25th April 1915 about 8,000 Anzacs fought their way off the narrow, stony beach. They moved upwards and inland through treacherous terrain and fierce concentrated fire from entrenched and well prepared Turkish positions. By evening they had gained some 2,000 metres and each side lost about 2,000 men. After 8 months of fighting the troops were withdrawn. Both the Allies and Turks had committed some 500,000 men each to the ill fated Dardanelles campaign. The Anzacs had lost 10,000 killed and 26,000 wounded.
Open edition prints. Image size 24 inches x 13 inches (61cm x 33cm). Price £51.00
ITEM CODE DHM0181
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Gallipoli Anzac Beach by Charles Dixon.
The Landing at Anzac, April 25th 1915.
Open edition print. Image size 12 inches x 7 inches (31cm x 18cm). Price £14.00
ITEM CODE VAR0402
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Gallipoli by Charles Dixon.
Although a very brown picture, it shows the Lancashire Regiment, coming of the beaches during the Gallipoli Campaign.
Open edition print. Image size 23 inches x 14 inches (59cm x 36cm). Price £34.00
ITEM CODE DHM0215
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Landing troops From the River Clyde at V Beach Gallipoli Peninsula by Charles Dixon RA.
Image size 8.5 inches x 6.5 inches (21cm x 16cm) . Price £51.00
One copy available with slight tear on side, just touching actual image. Image size 8.5 inches x 6.5 inches (21cm x 16cm). Price £
ITEM CODE ANT0139
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Victoria Cross Winners, W Beach Lancashire Landing. Gallipoli, 25th April 1915 by Stuart Liptrot.
ndividuals shown: Captain Richard R Willis, Captain Cuthbert Bromley, Sergeant Frank E Stubbs, Lance Corporal John E Grimshaw, Private William S Keneally and Sergeant Alfred J Richards.
Image size 11 inches x 14 inches (28cm x 36cm) . Price £37.00
Limited edition of 50 artists proofs. Image size 11 inches x 14 inches (28cm x 36cm). Price £43.00
ITEM CODE LI0014
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Second Lieutenant Throssell Holding Part of a Captured Turkish Trench Against the Enemys Counter-Attacks by Allan Stewart. (P)
During the attack on August 29th 1915, made by the 10th Australian Light Horse on a section of a Turkish trench on Hill 60, Gallipoli Peninsula, which the enemy had previously recaptured, Second Lieutenant Throssell was severely wounded in several places, but with the greatest gallantry refused to leave the trench for medical assistance until the danger was passed. After driving the enemy headlong down the trench, he stood by his men with a rifle while they built up a sandbag barricade, and shot every Turk who attempted to advance. Twice afterwards when he and his men were forced to give ground, he held the enemy at bay while the barricades were being raised. For his most conspicuous gallantry Second Lieutenant (who became Lieutenant) Throssell was awarded the VC.
Antique prints published c.1918. Paper size 11 inches x 8.5 inches (28cm x 22cm). Price £25.00
ITEM CODE ANT0141
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Private Cooke Continues To Fire His Machine Gun After Every Member Of The Gun Team Had Been Killed Or Wounded.
After a Lewis gun had been disabled, Private Cooke, of the Australian Infantry, was ordered to take his gun and gun team to a dangerous part of the line. Here he did fine work, but came under very heavy fire, with the result that finally he was the only man left. He still stuck to his post, and continued to fire his gun, but when assistance was sent he was found dead. He had set a splendid example of determination and devotion to duty, for which he was posthumously, awarded the V.C.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0710
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Captain Willis Heading a Charge by a Landing Party Through Wire Entanglements and Under Heavy Fire Near Cape Helles.
As the Lancashire Fusiliers landed on the shores of the Gallipoli Peninsula on April 25th 1915, at a point west of Cape Helles, a deadly fire assailed them from hidden machine guns. Many of the men fell, but the survivors, with undaunted courage, rushed up and cut the wire entanglements. The difficulties of the attack were supreme, but Captain Richard Raymond Willis, Sergeant Richards and Private Keneally, of the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, performed signal acts of bravery and devotion to duty. The cliffs were at length gained, and the position was maintained while the conspicuous gallantry of Captain Willis was rewarded with the V.C.
Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0248
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Bombardier Nelson Working A Field Gun Single Handed And Under Heavy Fire.
An attack from Cape Helles, on the shores of the Dardanelles, was begun on August 6th 1915, in support of movements on the Gallipolis Peninsula. When every other man attached to one of the field guns had been killed or wounded during the fighting on May 9th, Bombardier J. L. Nelson, of the 4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade, Royal Garrison Artillery, continued with the greatest courage to work the gun although the enemy were directing a deadly fire on to the British at close range. The services of Bombardier Nelson were of the utmost value at a critical period, and he was most deservedly rewarded with the D.C.M.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0309
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Private Skinner And A Comrade Crawling From Their Trench At Chunk Bair To Extinguish A Strange Light.
Towards dawn on the morning of August 9th 1915, Private Henry Devenish Skinner, of the 14th South Otago Regiment, N.Z.R., saw from his trench at Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli Peninsula, a light burning a short way in front. Thinking that it might possibly attract the enemys fire, he passed word along the trench that he was going out to extinguish it, and taking with him a friend named Levett, he crawled out of the trench. As they came near the light the two men saw to their astonishment that it came from a dead man whose body was burning, and from which there rose a small flame.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0282
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Privates Druall and Smith clearing away the wounded from a sap which was unprotected and exposed to heavy fire.
Following the capture of a Turkish position at Gallipoli on July 21st 1915, ammunition, sandbags and water were urgently needed, and the only means of communications was a shallow sap, unprotected and blocked with dead and wounded. But Privates J Druall and J Smith, of the 1/7th Battalion, Scottish Rifles (T.F.) worked for several hours, exposed to heavy fire, to clear away the wounded, and render effective cover to supplying parties. For their conspicuous gallantry they were both awarded the D.C.M.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0520
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Corporal Bassett Laying A Telephone Line At Chunuk Bair Under Heavy And Continuous Fire.
At ten oclock on the morning of august 7th 1915, the New Zealand Infantry Brigade attacked and carried Rhododendron Ridge, which joins the main ridge just west of Chunuk Bair. Later in the day the main ridge was reconnoitred, and in full daylight and under continuous and heavy fire, Corporal Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett, of the New Zealand Divisional Signal Company, succeeded in laying a telephone line on the ridge from the old to the new position, in order to set up communication between headquarters and the font line. For his conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty Corporal Bassett was rewarded with the V.C.
Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0258
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Lance-Corporal M. Parker Holding Turks At Bay In A Mine Gallery.
The emergency in which Lance- Corporal Parker, of the 5th Kings Own Scottish Borderers, proved his prowess was as unexpected as formidable. Parker and his men was on the Gallipoli Peninsula on the 14th September 1915, constructing under the Turkish trenches a mine gallery, which suddenly broke into a hostile gallery. A weird subterranean contest then began. Parker held off the Turks with his rifle though they fired on him and threw bombs at him. Then he was driven out by fumes, but returned and filled up the breach so that a charge might be laid and the enemy’s works destroyed. He was awarded the D.C.M.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0008
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The Famous Landing From The River Clyde At V Beach.
At 6.10 a.m. on April 25th 1915, the River Clyde struck V Beach, and the hopper went ahead and grounded on the port bow, in the charge of Midshipman Drewry. In the midst of very dangerous firing from the opposite shore, Drewry jumped over the bow and waded towards the beach. Meeting a soldier wounded in the water, he tried to carry him ashore with the assistance of another soldier, but the man was shot in the arms of the rescuers. Drewry then ran along the bridge, but seeing Commander Unwin and Able seaman Williams towing the lighters he waded out and assisted them in securing the boats under heavy rifle and maxim fire. He was wounded in the head, but continued his work and twice subsequently attempted to swim from lighter to lighter with a line. He was awarded the V.C.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0334
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Midshipman Malleson Jumping With a Line From A Barge to Link up Another Barge Which Was Drifting.
Lieutenant Morse and Midshipman Drewry were on board the barge, which lay nearest to the shore when a shot severed the rope by which the barges were lashed, again setting them adrift. Midshipman Drewry was hit in the head by a fragment of shell, but hastily binding his wound he jumped overboard with a fresh line. For the second time the rope proved too short, whereupon Midshipman Wilfred Malleson threw himself over the side and made fast the drifting barges. Once more the line was broken, and though Malleson made two further gallant efforts to carry a rope he was unsuccessful. He was however, rewarded with the V.C. for his great gallantry.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0337
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Bombardier Cook Taking Live Shells out of a Blazing Ammunition Wagon.
Bombardier C. W. Cook, of the 368th Battery, Royal Artillery, won the D.C.M. for a remarkable example of cool courage and presence of mind at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula. On June 28th 1915, the position of his battery was discovered by Turkish observers on the Asiatic shore and was subjected to a severe fire from heavy howitzers. One lucky shot hit the gun on which Cook was working and killed or wounded the whole detachment. A little later the ammunition wagon was set on fire. Bombardier Cook immediately rushed forward to save the ammunition. No one could have blamed him for retiring to a safe distance in such an emergency, but so far from retiring he saved most of the shells from the wagon and also the ammunition stored in the pits instead.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0011
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Corporal Allpress Telephoning Observations To His Battery Though Alone And Surrounded By The Enemys.
During the night of May 1st 1915, the Turks in one great onslaught rushed the first and second line trenches of the Allies in an effort to drive them from the Gallipoli Peninsula. At a forward observation point in the front-line trench at Stone Ridge, Krithis, Corporal Allpress of the Royal horse Artillery, was acting as observer whilst a comrade telephoned his observations to the battery. They shot dead with their revolvers three of the enemy who attempted to cross where they were stationed, but soon afterwards the comrade of Allpress was killed. Allpress however, continued to do the doubt duty of observer and operator till a successful counter-attack was made in the following night. For his great courage and devotion to duty Corporal Allpress was awarded the D.C.M.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0361
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Private Lavin Grappling With A Turkish Bomber In A British Sap At Suvla Bay, Gallipoli.
While on patrol duty in front of the British lines at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli on the night of November 9th 1915. Private James Lavin of the 15th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers saw a Turkish bomber creep into a British sap. Lavin at once crawled from the tree behind which he was taking cover to the sap. As he entered he heard the Turk loading his rifle, and while advancing, Lavin accidentally kicked over an empty tin. The Turk instantly turned and fired point blank at him, but fortunately missed the mark. Throwing down his rifle, Lavin grappled with his enemy, and having wrenched the rifle out of his hands, he drove the Turks at the point of the bayonet towards the British lines. His cool and courageous conduct was rewarded with the D.C.M.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0350
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An Early Incident Before The Occasion On Which Captain Shout Won The V.C.
After nearly three complete days of fighting in the Lone Pine trenches, during the longest and fiercest hand-to-hand struggle which had yet occurred in the Peninsula, the Turks still held a big communication trench winding almost directly to the point which was at first chosen for the headquarters. While Brigadier Smythe was standing outside the office the Turks had come up the trench, marching calmly three abreast, round the last elbow into the full view of some who were standing with the headquarters party. Only a low barricade, breast high, separated them, Lieutenant Howell Price, subsequently commanding the 3rd Battalion, shot two with his revolver.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0042
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Captain Barber Surprising a Turkish Sentry in a Hostile Listening Tunnel.
An opening having been driven into a hostile listening tunnel, Captain Charles Stanley Barber, of the 3rd Field Company Australian Engineers, crawled through with a few men on hands and knees. Captain Barber then surprised the Turkish sentry, and by barricading a large portion of the tunnel, considerably strengthened the advanced post. He was awarded the M.C. for conspicuous gallantry.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0373
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Second Lieutenant Dallas-Moor Rallies A Detachment Which Had Momentarily Broken Before A Furious Turkish Assault.
The Allies made a third great attempt to capture the heights of Achi Baba and Krithia on June 4th 1915, and after a hard struggle an advance was made of abut five hundred yards on a front of three miles, and two lines of Turkish trenches were occupied. On June 5th the Turks made a furious assault on the British, and a detachment of a battalion, whose officers had fallen, broke for a moment and began to retire. Realizing the danger to the rest of the line, Second-Lieutenant George Raymond Dallas-Moor, of the 3rd Battalion The Hampshire Regiment, who was about two hundred yards away on the left, dashed back and rallied the men. He then led them forward and recaptured the lost trench. Lieutenant Dallas-Moor only joined the army in October of 1914, but his bravery and presence of mind on this occasion saved a dangerous situation. He was awarded the V.C.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0326
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The Making of a Legend, The Landing at Anzac Cove by Lambert
Landing at dawn on 25th April 1915 about 8,000 Anzacs fought their way
off the narrow, stony beach. They moved upwards and inland through treacherous
terrain and fierce concentrated fire from entrenched and well prepared
Turkish positions. By evening they had gained some 2,000 metres and each
side lost about 2,000 men. After 8 months of fighting the troops were
withdrawn. Both the Allies and Turks had committed some 500,000 men each
to the ill fated Dardanelles campaign. The Anzacs had lost 10,000 killed
and 26,000 wounded.
Gallipoli by Charles Dixon
Although a very brown picture, it shows the Lancashire Regiment, coming
of the beaches during the Gallipoli Campaign
Landing troops From the
River Clyde at V
Beach Gallipoli Peninsula by Charles Dixon RA
The landing from the River Clyde at V Beach, Gallipoli Peninsula
was begun early in the morning of 25th April. As the vessel made her way
to the spot where she was to be beached the British warships began to
shell the shore batteries. No sooner had she grounded than doors cut in
her sides were thrown open to let out the 2,000 men she was carrying.
Many were shot as they rushed down the platform onto the lighters, and
as those in the picket boats which the River Clyde had towed, jumped
into the shallow water, they came under a storm of shot and shell,
besides which they had to force their way through three lines of wire
entanglements and a maze of trenches. The greatest bravery was shown by
all and no less than 6 VC's were gained in the undertaking.
Victoria Cross Winners,
W Beach Lancashire Landing. Gallipoli, 25th April 1915 by S Liptrot
Individuals shown:
Captain Richard R Willis, Captain Cuthbert Bromley, Sergeant Frank E
Stubbs, Lance Corporal John E Grimshaw, Private William S Keneally and
Sergeant Alfred J Richards.
Piper McLennan advancing in an
attack at Gallipoli and playing his pipes to encourage the men.
On July 21st 1915, a Turkish was captured at Gallipoli. To the great
encouragement of the men, Piper K. McLennan, of the 1/7th (Blythswood)
Battalion, highland Light Infantry, advanced with the attacking line,
playing his pipes. During
the attack a shrapnel shell burst close to him, shattering his pipes,
but with great courage and coolness, he began to tend and dress the
wound. His conspicuous
gallantry was rewarded with the D.C.M.
Second Lieutenant Throssell Holding Part of a Captured
Turkish Trench Against the Enemy's Counter-Attacks by Allan StewartDuring the attack on August 29th 1915, made by the 10th Australian
Light Horse on a section of a Turkish trench on Hill 60, Gallipoli
Peninsula, which the enemy had previously recaptured, Second Lieutenant
Throssell was severely wounded in several places, but with the greatest
gallantry refused to leave the trench for medical assistance until the
danger was passed. After driving the enemy headlong down the trench, he
stood by his men with a rifle while they built up a sandbag barricade,
and shot every Turk who attempted to advance. Twice afterwards when he
and his men were forced to give ground, he held the enemy at bay while
the barricades were being raised. For his most conspicuous gallantry
Second Lieutenant (who became Lieutenant) Throssell was awarded the VC.Private Cooke Continues To Fire His Machine Gun
After Every Member Of The Gun Team Had Been Killed Or Wounded
After a Lewis gun had been disabled, Private Cooke, of the
Australian Infantry, was ordered to take his gun and gun team to a
dangerous part of the line. Here
he did fine work, but came under very heavy fire, with the result that
finally he was the only man left. He
still stuck to his post, and continued to fire his gun, but when
assistance was sent he was found dead.
He had set a splendid example of determination and devotion to
duty, for which he was posthumously, awarded the V.C.
Captain Willis Heading a
Charge by a Landing Party Through Wire Entanglements and Under Heavy
Fire Near Cape Helles.As the Lancashire Fusiliers landed on the shores of the Gallipoli
Peninsula on April 25th 1915, at a point west of Cape Helles,
a deadly fire assailed them from hidden machine guns.
Many of the men fell, but the survivors, with undaunted courage,
rushed up and cut the wire entanglements.
The difficulties of the attack were supreme, but Captain Richard
Raymond Willis, Sergeant Richards and Private Keneally, of the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, performed signal acts of bravery and
devotion to duty. The
cliffs were at length gained, and the position was maintained while the
conspicuous gallantry of Captain Willis was rewarded with the V.C.Bombardier Nelson Working A Field
Gun Single Handed And Under Heavy Fire. An attack from Cape
Helles, on the shores of the Dardanelles, was
begun on August 6th 1915, in support of movements on the
Gallipolis Peninsula. When
every other man attached to one of the field guns had been killed or
wounded during the fighting on May 9th, Bombardier J. L.
Nelson, of the 4th Highland (Mountain) Brigade, Royal
Garrison Artillery, continued with the greatest courage to work the gun
although the enemy were directing a deadly fire on to the British at
close range. The services
of Bombardier Nelson were of the utmost value at a critical period, and
he was most deservedly rewarded with the D.C.M.
Private Skinner And A Comrade
Crawling From Their Trench At Chunk Bair To Extinguish A Strange Light.
Towards dawn on the morning of August 9th 1915,
Private Henry Devenish Skinner, of the 14th South Otago Regiment, N.Z.R.,
saw from his trench at Chunuk Bair, Gallipoli Peninsula, a light burning
a short way in front. Thinking that it might possibly attract the enemys fire, he
passed word along the trench that he was going out to extinguish it, and
taking with him a friend named Levett, he crawled out of the trench.
As they came near the light the two men saw to their astonishment
that it came from a dead man whose body was burning, and from which
there rose a small flame.
Privates
Druall and Smith clearing away the wounded from a sap which was unprotected
and exposed to heavy fire.
Following the capture of a Turkish position at Gallipoli
on July 21st 1915, ammunition, sandbags and water were
urgently needed, and the only means of communications was a shallow sap,
unprotected and blocked with dead and wounded.
But Privates J Druall and J Smith, of the 1/7th
Battalion, Scottish Rifles (T.F.) worked for several hours, exposed to
heavy fire, to clear away the wounded, and render effective cover to
supplying parties. For
their conspicuous gallantry they were both awarded the D.C.M.
Corporal Bassett Laying A
Telephone Line At Chunuk Bair Under Heavy And Continuous Fire.
At ten oclock on the morning of august 7th 1915,
the New Zealand Infantry Brigade attacked and carried Rhododendron
Ridge, which joins the main ridge just west of Chunuk Bair.
Later in the day the main ridge was reconnoitred, and in full
daylight and under continuous and heavy fire, Corporal Cyril Royston
Guyton Bassett, of the New Zealand Divisional Signal Company, succeeded
in laying a telephone line on the ridge from the old to the new
position, in order to set up communication between headquarters and the
font line. For his
conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty Corporal Bassett was rewarded
with the V.C.Lance-Corporal
M. Parker Holding Turks At Bay In A Mine Gallery. The emergency in which Lance- Corporal Parker, of the 5th Kings Own
Scottish Borderers, proved his prowess was as unexpected as formidable.
Parker and his men was on the Gallipoli Peninsula on the 14th
September 1915, constructing under the Turkish trenches a mine gallery,
which suddenly broke into a hostile gallery.
A weird subterranean contest then began.
Parker held off the Turks with his rifle though they fired on him
and threw bombs at him. Then
he was driven out by fumes, but returned and filled up the breach so
that a charge might be laid and the enemy’s works destroyed.
He was awarded the D.C.M.
The
Famous Landing From The River Clyde At V Beach. At 6.10 a.m. on April 25th 1915, the River Clyde
struck V Beach, and the hopper went ahead and grounded on the port bow,
in the charge of Midshipman Drewry.
In the midst of very dangerous firing from the opposite shore,
Drewry jumped over the bow and waded towards the beach.
Meeting a soldier wounded in the water, he tried to carry him
ashore with the assistance of another soldier, but the man was shot in
the arms of the rescuers. Drewry then ran along the bridge, but seeing Commander Unwin
and Able seaman Williams towing the lighters he waded out and assisted
them in securing the boats under heavy rifle and maxim fire. He was wounded in the head, but continued his work and twice
subsequently attempted to swim from lighter to lighter with a line.
He was awarded the V.C.
Midshipman
Malleson Jumping With a Line From A Barge to Link up Another Barge Which
Was Drifting. Lieutenant Morse and Midshipman Drewry were on board the barge,
which lay nearest to the shore when a shot severed the rope by which the
barges were lashed, again setting them adrift.
Midshipman Drewry was hit in the head by a fragment of shell, but
hastily binding his wound he jumped overboard with a fresh line.
For the second time the rope proved too short, whereupon
Midshipman Wilfred Malleson threw himself over the side and made fast
the drifting barges. Once
more the line was broken, and though Malleson made two further gallant
efforts to carry a rope he was unsuccessful.
He was however, rewarded with the V.C. for his great gallantry.
Bombardier
Cook Takingb Live Shells out of a Blazing Ammunition Wagon. Bombardier C. W. Cook, of the 368th Battery, Royal
Artillery, won the D.C.M. for a remarkable example of cool courage and
presence of mind at Cape Helles on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
On June 28th 1915, the position of his battery was discovered by
Turkish observers on the Asiatic shore and was subjected to a severe
fire from heavy howitzers. One
lucky shot hit the gun on which Cook was working and killed or wounded
the whole detachment. A
little later the ammunition wagon was set on fire.
Bombardier Cook immediately rushed forward to save the
ammunition. No one could
have blamed him for retiring to a safe distance in such an emergency,
but so far from retiring he saved most of the shells from the wagon and
also the ammunition stored in the pits instead.
Corporal
Allpress Telephoning Observations To His Battery Though Alone And Surrounded
By The Enemys. During
the night of May 1st 1915, the Turks in one great onslaught
rushed the first and second line trenches of the Allies in an effort to
drive them from the Gallipoli Peninsula.
At a forward observation point in the front-line trench at Stone
Ridge, Krithis, Corporal Allpress of the Royal horse Artillery, was
acting as observer whilst a comrade telephoned his observations to the
battery. They shot dead
with their revolvers three of the enemy who attempted to cross where
they were stationed, but soon afterwards the comrade of Allpress was
killed. Allpress however,
continued to do the doubt duty of observer and operator till a
successful counter-attack was made in the following night.
For his great courage and devotion to duty Corporal Allpress was
awarded the D.C.M.
Private Lavin Grappling With
A Turkish Bomber In A British Sap At Suvla Bay, Gallipoli. While on patrol duty in front of the British lines at Suvla Bay,
Gallipoli on the night of November 9th 1915.
Private James Lavin of the 15th Battalion Royal Welsh
Fusiliers saw a Turkish bomber creep into a British sap.
Lavin at once crawled from the tree behind which he was taking
cover to the sap. As he
entered he heard the Turk loading his rifle, and while advancing, Lavin
accidentally kicked over an empty tin.
The Turk instantly turned and fired point blank at him, but
fortunately missed the mark. Throwing down his rifle, Lavin grappled
with his enemy, and having wrenched the rifle out of his hands, he drove
the Turks at the point of the bayonet towards the British lines.
His cool and courageous conduct was rewarded with the D.C.M.
An Early Incident Before The Occasion On Which
Captain Shout Won The V.C. After nearly three complete days of fighting in the
Lone Pine trenches, during the longest and fiercest hand-to-hand
struggle which had yet occurred in the Peninsula, the Turks still held a
big communication trench winding almost directly to the point which was
at first chosen for the headquarters.
While Brigadier Smythe was standing outside the office the Turks
had come up the trench, marching calmly three abreast, round the last
elbow into the full view of some who were standing with the headquarters
party. Only a low
barricade, breast high, separated them, Lieutenant Howell Price,
subsequently commanding the 3rd Battalion, shot two with his revolver.
Captain
Barber Surprising a Turkish Sentry in a Hostile Listening Tunnel. An
opening having been driven into a hostile listening tunnel, Captain
Charles Stanley Barber, of the 3rd Field Company Australian Engineers,
crawled through with a few men on hands and knees. Captain Barber then
surprised the Turkish sentry, and by barricading a large portion of the
tunnel, considerably strengthened the advanced post. He was awarded the
M.C. for conspicuous gallantry.
Second Lieutenant Dallas-Moor
Rallies A Detachment Which Had Momentarily Broken Before
A Furious Turkish Assault. The Allies made a third great attempt to capture the heights of
Achi Baba and Krithia on June 4th 1915, and after a hard
struggle an advance was made of abut five hundred yards on a front of
three miles, and two lines of Turkish trenches were occupied.
On June 5th the Turks made a furious assault on the
British, and a detachment of a battalion, whose officers had fallen,
broke for a moment and began to retire.
Realizing the danger to the rest of the line, Second-Lieutenant
George Raymond Dallas-Moor, of the 3rd Battalion The
Hampshire Regiment, who was about two hundred yards away on the left,
dashed back and rallied the men. He
then led them forward and recaptured the lost trench.
Lieutenant Dallas-Moor only joined the army in October of 1914,
but his bravery and presence of mind on this occasion saved a dangerous
situation. He was awarded
the V.C.
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