Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE EAST

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_Front Row, left to right_--Rev. E.T. Kerby, Chaplain; Capt. C. Norbury; Capt. H.G. Davies; Capt. and Adj. P.H. Creagh; Major G.B. Hurst; Lieut.-Col. H.E. Gresham; Major J.H. Staveacre; Major J. Scott; Capt. J.N. Brown; Capt. H. Smedley.

_Middle Row, left to right_-- ----; Lieut. F. Hayes; Capt. J.F. Farrow (R.A.M.C.); Lieut. G. Chadwick; Lieut. W.G. Freemantle; Lieut. C.H. Williamson; Capt. A.T. Ward Jones; Lieut. W.F. Creery; Capt. C.E. Higham.

_Back Row, left to right_--Capt. T.W. Savatard; Lieut. B. Norbury; Capt. D. Nelson; Lieut. D. Norbury; Lieut. E. Townson; Lieut. G.S. Lockwood; Lieut. J.H. Thorpe; Lieut. G.C. Hans Hamilton; Lieut. H.D. Thewlis; Lieut. A.H. Tinker.

_Absent_--Capt. R.V. Rylands.]

WITH MANCHESTERS IN THE EAST

BY

GERALD B. HURST

MANCHESTER: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 12 LIME GROVE, OXFORD ROAD LONGMANS, GREEN & CO. London, New York, Bombay, etc. 1918

THE RIVERSIDE PRESS LIMITED, EDINBURGH

PUBLISHERS' NOTE

During the passage of this book through the press, the Author has been engaged overseas on active service, and has been unable to devote the necessary attention to the correction of the proofs, etc. Due allowance must therefore be made for such errors as have crept into the pages.

The Publishers have felt obliged to delete the numbers of the Territorial Battalions mentioned in the book, a fact which accounts for occasional vagueness in terminology.

CONTENTS

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PUBLISHERS' NOTE v

CHAPTER

I. EASTWARD HO! 1

II. THE SUDAN 12

III. GALLIPOLI 23

IV. THE AUGUST BATTLES AT CAPE HELLES 33

V. TRENCH WARFARE ON GALLIPOLI 45

VI. THE STRAIN 56

VII. THE LIMIT 65

VIII. LAST WORDS ON GALLIPOLI 71

IX. REVIVAL IN EGYPT 76

X. ON THE SUEZ CANAL 82

XI. SINAI 88

XII. THE TERRITORIAL IDEA 95

APPENDIX--EXTRACT FROM A LETTER
FROM GENERAL WINGATE 100

INDEX 103

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Battalion Officers on Mobilization, August 1914 _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Lieut.-Col. H.E. Gresham 2

Arrival at Khartum, 2nd October 1914 10

General Sir F.R. Wingate, G.C.B., K.C., M.G. 14

Map of Gallipoli 24

(a) In Khartum Station } } 40 (b) In a Turkish Trench }

C Company, The British Camel Company 62

Group of Officers, Egypt, 1914 84

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