Chapter I: Front Matter

The New Zealanders

at Gallipoli

BY

MAJOR FRED WAITE, D.S.O., N.Z.E.

_Adjutant Divisional Engineers, N.Z. & A. Division, 1914-15_

_Chief Engineer Instructor, N.Z.E.F. Training Camps, 1916-18_

SECOND EDITION

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_Printed and Published under the Authority of the
New Zealand Government by_

WHITCOMBE AND TOMBS LIMITED
AUCKLAND, CHRISTCHURCH, DUNEDIN AND WELLINGTON

1921

To the Memory of Our Glorious Dead.

_They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe._

_They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them._

--_Laurence Binyon_

Contents.

The New Zealand Popular History Series, by Sir James Allen,
K.C.B. v.

The New Zealanders of Anzac, by General Sir Ian Hamilton vii.

To My Old Comrades, by General Sir Wm. Birdwood xv.

CHAPTER

I. The Concentration of the Expeditionary Force 1

II. The Voyage to Egypt 14

III. Training in Egypt 32

IV. The Defence of the Suez Canal 47

V. The Rendezvous at Mudros 64

VI. The Anzac Landing 74

VII. The First Week 86

VIII. At the Head of Monash Gully 102

IX. The Battle of Krithia 119

X. The Coming of the Mounteds 132

XI. Supplying the Needs of the Army 152

XII. Midsummer at Anzac 166

XIII. The Preparations in July 182

XIV. The Battle of Sari Bair 192

XV. The Battle of Kaiajik Aghala 245

XVI. Preparing for the End 259

XVII. The Evacuation 278

XVIII. The Return to Anzac 294