Identifier: britishcampaign00dane (find matches)
Title: British campaigns in the nearer East, 1914-1918
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Dane, Edmund
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns Turkey and the Near East World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) : Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ry of the inutility of navalattack on land defences had the justification attributedto it. The covering force had arrived from Egypt off theIsland of Tenedos on the morning of April 24. Duringthe afternoon of that day they were transferred to thelighter warships and mine sweepers, in which it hadbeen decided that they were to approach the shore.Each towing a number of cutters and other small boats,these ships at midnight slipped their cables, and underthe escort of the third squadron of the fleet sevenbattleships and four cruisers, steamed towards therendezvous at Cape Helles. General Hamilton recordsthat the cables were slipped silently, and that the passagewas made under slow steam. These were advisableprecautions, but if there existed any idea that theenemy was being taken by surprise it was, as eventsproved, without foundation. As timed, the rendezvous was reached just beforedawn. There was no wind. The sea was as unruffledas a surface of glass. Light mists hung motionless over 66
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(2o face pat/e 66F 2 BRITISH CAMPAIGNS IN THE NEARER EAST the Gallipoli bluffs. Ashore no sign of activity, or evenof life. The battleships and cruisers of the squadron, underthe command of Rear-Admiral R. E. Wemyss, took uptheir positions and at the signal opened fire simultane-ously. From Gallipoli the enemy answered with not ashot. Some batteries on the Asiatic side of the Dar-danelles alone indicated that he was on the alert. While the bombardment was in progress the troopsdetailed for the preliminary landings were transferredto the boats. The landing at Eski Hissarlik Point wasentrusted to the South Wales Borderers, commanded byLieut.-Colonel Casson. Here the chief obstacle provedto be the current. Two hours elapsed before the Corpswere all ashore, but the landing, covered by a heavynaval fire, was effected with a loss of not more thanfifty killed and wounded, and Lieut.-Colonel Casson wasable to push up from the beach and, seizing some highground close to De Totts Battery, to es

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