Chapter XII: Suvla Bay

Description of the bay and surrounding country--General
Stopford and IXth Corps--Divisional Generals--Evening
August 6 to evening August 7--The embarkation--Work of the
Navy--The landing beaches--Capture of Lala Baba--Ill-luck
of 34th Brigade--Delay and confusion of Brigades and
Divisions--Hill’s Brigade (31st)--Its advance round Salt
Lake--Capture of Chocolate Hill--General Mahon on Kiretch
Tepe Sirt--Evening August 7 to evening August 8--Silence
at Suvla--Failure of water distribution--Sir Ian visits
Suvla--His orders to General Hammersley--Scimitar Hill
abandoned by mistake--Evening August 8 to evening August
9--Turks reinforced return to positions--Failure of our
attack on Scimitar Hill--Sir Ian proposes occupation
of Kavak and Tekke Tepes--He sends his last reserve to
Suvla--Evening August 9 to evening August 10--Renewed
attack on Scimitar Hill--Its failure--General Stopford
ordered to consolidate line--Evening August 10 to evening
August 11--Landing of 54th Division--Confusion of front
lines--Battalions reorganised--Evening August 11 to evening
August 12--Sir Ian again urges occupation of Kavak and
Tekke Tepes--Disappearance of 5th Norfolks--General
Stopford’s objections--The 10th Division on Kiretch Tepe
Sirt (August 15)--Failure to maintain advance--General De
Lisle succeeds General Stopford temporarily in command of
IXth Corps--Other changes in command 286

CHAPTER XIII

THE LAST EFFORTS

Causes of the failure in August--Advantages gained--Approximate
losses--Adequate reinforcements refused--Arrival of
Peyton’s mounted Division--Renewed attempt against Scimitar
Hill (August 21)--Mistakes in the advance on right--The
29th Division in centre--Advance of the Yeomanry--Failure
to occupy the hill--Attack on Hill 60 from Anzac--Kabak
Kuyu (August 21)--Connaught Rangers--Slow progress of
attack--Second attack (August 27)--Third attack (August
29)--Last battle on the Peninsula 333

CHAPTER XIV

SIR IAN’S RECALL

Sickness increases during September--Monotonous food--Regret
for dead and wounded--New drafts--Fears of winter--Sir
Julian Byng commands IXth Corps--Events in France, Poland,
and the Balkans--Attitude of Bulgaria and Greece--The 10th
Division and one French sent to Salonika--Bulgaria declares
war--Venizelos resigns--Serbia invaded--Salonika expedition
too late, but destroys hope of Dardanelles--Lord Kitchener
inquires about evacuation--Sir Ian’s reply--He is recalled
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