Source: File: General Headquarters, Imbros,
1915.jpg,
2015. From National Army
Museum. [online] Available at: <http://www.army.mod.uk/firstworldwarresources/gallipoli-1915/general-headquarters-imbros-1915> [Accessed:
12 May 2015].
From the Turkey
Island of Imbros, Monday News
Spoke of a quiet
day about the Dardanelles -
After more than twenty
days fights still raged,
For the gains of
the Peninsula and Gallipoli coast.
Saturday 8 May,
Cape Helles views saw Turkish
Attack - their
guns across Asiatic shores,
On land between
Dardanus and Ernekeui,
Targeting their
fire in the Straits on British ships.
Gunnery on
British destroyers made their reply.
With distant
rolling boom in retort clouds;
One spat fury - the
other back as angry
Vengeful, birds
perched on opposing shores.
Midday Monday 10
May, began land battle beyond
The shore ridge
of Gaba Tepe - three miles
Away, Ibrahima
fired broadside at 1.45 p.m.
Onto Narrows of
Boghali Kalessi and Khelia Liman.
Shells hit again
and again - until black smoke
Appeared towards Boghali Kalessi,
Dispersing into
the sky - as flashes
Of guns, like a
beast spitting fire, shot into air.
The plumes came
from about Erenkeui town -
As ships gunnery
gave their replies -
The mobile
batteries in the Turkish
Town, took their aim
on British in the Straits.
The defending
retorts of shipping gunnery
Intensified, till
4 p.m. when shells died.
In Turkish
defence the Krithia village
Remained on their
side, halting their enemy.
From that
Peninsula edge, Turkish defenders
Held Seddul Bahr
to Cape Suvla -
With 11 May 13,000
wounded Turks
In Constantinople,
raised their state of fears.
Figures grew to
40,000 injured, as crowds
Of Turkish women
set out onto streets,
Cursing those who
sent them to fight;
As Sultan Mahomed
considered an abdication.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Dardanelles
- Enemy Spirited Attack - Movable Batteries. The Daily Telegraph,
[online] 15 May. P.8. Col.6.
Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11600375/Daily-Telegraph-May-15-1915.html
[Accessed: 15 May 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 15 May 2015).
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