Source: File: Turkish trenches at Lone Pine, captured on August 6, 1915, by the 1st
Brigade AIF..jpeg Pine branches can be seen covering the trenches.[online] see
an original image at: <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-23/the-turkish-trenches-at-lone-pine-captured-in-august-1915/5406006> [17 October 2015].
From the fighting in Gallipoli, the
Anzac's
Infantry Forces were to see more
Awards
Of VCs acts, in area of Lone Pine Trenches.
From out of ten, three stories told
events
For conspicuous bravery - these
officers,
Captain Alfred Shout and two
lieutenants.
The date 9 August, the time early
morning;
In battles heat, Captain Alfred John
Shout
Took the charge down Turk held
trenches.
Leading the small party against an
enemy,
He himself threw four bombs to rouse
all
Occupiers out - leaving behind eight
dead.
From that secured space in the
afternoon,
Captain Shout took charge, to capture
A further length to bomb further
enemy.
Amid close range heavy fire the
Captain
Was hit and badly wounded, to loose
his
Left eye and right hand; only to
succumb.
With Captain Shout in the 1st
battalion,
The 7th Battalion, in another Lone Pine
Incident, saw Lieutenant Johns
Symons.
During the night of 8 August 1915,
this
Lieutenant commanded the right section
Of Anzac held Lone Pine trenches.
Under his cool command, all counter
Attacks were repelled, then at
5 a.m.
A Turkish attack fell on an isolated
sap.
With a section lost, along with six
officers
Wounded or killed, Symons took a
charge
To take back the sap and shoot two
Turks.
Three sides of hostile fire forced
their
A withdrawal, to gain overhead cover -
Additionally building a sand
barricade.
Still under weighty gunnery the
enemy
Set cover alight, but Lieutenant
Symons
Put out the fire and rebuilt wall
defences.
Under his steadfast leadership, the Turks
Withdrew their attack - within the
same
Battalion was Lieutenant Frederick
Tubb.
In the same early hour of that same
Morning, a Turkish counter attack
Made a hit back on their lost
trenches.
Their tactic was to advance in a sap
To blow a sandbag barricade; but
then
Tubb's lead of men pushed them back.
Twice again enemy bomb parties
Hit the barricade - despite wounds
In head and arms Tubb held position.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Victoria Cross For Australian Heroes
- Fierce Trench Fighting - Hurling Back Enemy Bombs. The
Daily Telegraph, [online] 16 October. P.8. Col.7. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11922671/Daily-Telegraph-October-16-1915.html
[Accessed: 17 October 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 17 October 2015).
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