Impression
sketch of Port Iero, Mitylene - by Jamie. See the original at: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205395814
From the Aegean
Island of Lesbos,
Word rolled out
from the ancient city,
Mitylene - to
state believed progress,
Within the
Dardanelles.
On Thursday 9 July, a report came
Via trenches of
Gallipoli Peninsula,
Conveyed by an
English soldier,
From the southern
front.
Allies had acceptable
development;
As all remained
hopeful, with great
Advances on Monday
and Tuesday-
Fifth and sixth of
July.
A continual falling
bombardment,
From accurate
allied field batteries
Commenced on
Turkish positions -
Prior to their
advances.
Moving onto that
ground in heat
Of a summer's day,
bodies were
Found lying where
they had fell,
Quickly
decomposing.
With lingering
masses of black flies,
Likely to spread
deathly disease
To the living was
need to bury them;
Halting their
advance.
During the Sunday and into Monday,
Barked a Turkish
bombardment,
Near Kum Kale - on
Asiatic shores
Of allied
encampments.
In the night Turkish gun positions
Were hard to locate
in hidden
Locations - but as day
came allied
Planes found the
places.
In firing combination from a French
Battleship and on
shore batteries,
The Turkish guns
were finally
Knocked silent.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915.
Dardanelles - Camps Bombarded -
Artillery Silenced. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 10 July. P.11. Col.2.
Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11721663/Daily-Telegraph-July-10-1915.html
[Accessed: 10 July 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100
years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication, 10 July
2015).
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