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
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d over theridge. To the north of this second valley rises TekkeTepe, a mass similar to Sari Bair, and of nearly thesame elevation. Hence the aspect of the country,looking at it from the west, is that of the two highermasses, one to the north and one to the south, withthe lower (Anafarta) ridge between them, and in theforegound the Salt Lake, to the north-east of it a patchof flat land about a mile square. General Stopford had thrown the larger part of hisforce towards the entrance of the second valley. Itwas essential, of course, to secure the intervening ridge,and that operation had been entrusted to GeneralHammersley with the 11th Division. The Anafartaridge as it runs inland rises, and its culminating pointis at the eastern end—the hill named by the Turksthe Ismail Oglu. This was the important position onthe rise, for it commanded both Great and LittleAnafarta, the cross road and the roads in the valleys. 202 British movements and attacks August 7-II Military mam roads —= SCALE
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GEOGRAPHiA L lo-LUr STifEET LC:Omt \ to fo-ce page 202. BRITISH CAMPAIGNS IN THE NEARER EAST Hammersley gained a footing on the ridge at its westernend (Chocolate Hill), but found the enemy alreadystrongly posted and could make no further headway.Chocolate Hill had been carried in a rush by the 6thLincolns and the 6th Border Regiment, who alike, though raw troops, displayed great steadiness and gallantry. In the meantime the 10th Division, under the commandof General Sir B. Mahon, had been pushing the attackupon Keretch Tepe Sirt. The weight of the fightinghere fell upon the 31st Brigade, formed of the 6thRoyal Inniskilling Fusiliers, the 6th Royal Irish(Munster) Fusiliers, and the 6th Royal Dublin Fusiliers.But here too, the enemy, in part a force of gendarmes,put up a stiff opposition. The ground over which anadvance had to be made was rugged and difficult, butthe Irishmen, though this was their first experience ofbattle, fought like veterans. A footing on the ridge wassecured. Conc

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