With the Twenty-ninth division in Gallipoli, a chaplain's experiences . ced, but were met with heavy fire from furtherpositions. One company was pushed onto a flank,and thus we succeeded in forcing the enemy evening we made slight progress forward,when we got up entrenching tools and dug in. Dur-ing the night a violent counter-attack was made by theenemy against us. But we stood firm and drove themback again. Our casualties were very heavy. Inmy company alone I had 95 casualties out of 205men. One of my platoons captured 13 Turks in onetrench. The officers and men who were killed
With the Twenty-ninth division in Gallipoli, a chaplain's experiences . ced, but were met with heavy fire from furtherpositions. One company was pushed onto a flank,and thus we succeeded in forcing the enemy evening we made slight progress forward,when we got up entrenching tools and dug in. Dur-ing the night a violent counter-attack was made by theenemy against us. But we stood firm and drove themback again. Our casualties were very heavy. Inmy company alone I had 95 casualties out of 205men. One of my platoons captured 13 Turks in onetrench. The officers and men who were killed wereburied together, close to the beach in an are now much reduced in strength, but thespirit of the old corps is just as strong as ever itwas. Major Adams, who wrote this account, was buriedjust above the beach on May 11. The regiment at onetime hoped to erect a permanent monument on thebeach to their comrades who fell there. He was muchbeloved by his regiment, and led his company verygallantly till his end. He had been twenty-five yearsin the
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