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Description:The 1st Bn Royal Dublin lFusiliers war diary is a meticulous transcription of the original Battalion diaries from the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16. It is fully searchable. At the outbreak of the Great War the 1st Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers (RDF) was based in Madras India. In January 1915 the Battalion sailed to England, joining other Regular battalions from various outposts of the British Empire. The 1st Bn RDF formed part of the 86th Infantry Brigade, 29th Division. The Battalion departed with a strength of 28 Officers and 1,007 Other Ranks destined for Egypt then Gallipoli. Eight weeks later just 1 Officer and 374 Other Ranks answered the roll call. On 25th April 1915 the 1st Bn RDF and other elements of the 29th Division were part of the force that landed in ships’ cutters at V Beach alongside the SS River Clyde, a collier deliberately run aground adjacent to the strategic Ottoman fort of Sedd El Bahr. The troops came under extremely intense fire as they attempted to row ashore and casualties were very high. The RDF war diary is tragically missing for this period, however the Commanding Officer of the 1st Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers on board the SS River Clyde along with a Company of the 1st Bn RDF recorded the chaotic scenes in detail; 25th Apr 1915.As the RIVER CLYDE came inshore a very heavy fire from rifles, machine guns and pom-poms was directed at her and also on the boats’ tows that ran in alongside soon after. This fire was so accurate that those in the boats were practically wiped out and very few got ashore. Wounded men jumped from the boats and took cover on the port side but were all eventually shot down and drowned…. The Battalion would stay in theatre for eight months and took part in some of the most brutal fighting on the peninsula. Fighting at Gallipoli was a fairly unique experience. With their backs to the sea the British forces were rarely out of danger. Most of the ‘rest areas’ were within the range of the Ottoman artillery and were constantly under threat. Artillery and artillery ammunition was in short supply on both sides, so the campaign did not experience the scale of bombardments seen on the Western Front. Despite this, danger came in many other forms. The physical conditions were extreme. The masses of decaying corpses at the height of the Mediterranean summer became breeding grounds for plagues of flies. Few truces were arranged to bury bodies and the flies spread disease rapidly. Dysentery afflicted most men at some stage further adding to the misery. Non-battle casualties were horrendous. In August 1915, the 1st Bn RDF supported what was to be the largest offensive made during the whole campaign in the Battle of Scimitar Hill on 21st August 1915. It was a failure and was to be the last mass offensive action of the whole campaign. On 10th Oct 1915 the 29th Division took stock of its casualties to date and counted the number of ‘originals’ who had landed on 25th April some six months earlier. Only 143 of the 1,035 ‘originals’ answered the roll call that day. Most of the remaining originals had been wounded or sick, evacuated, recovered and returned. Only 57 had never left the Gallipoli peninsula. As stalemate set in the blistering heat of the summer gave way to cooler weather, then rains and finally the winter. At the end of November a freak storm of hurricane force winds battered the peninsula. The torrential rain triggered flash floods that burst the sandbag walls, drowning men and inundating the trenches. Then the blizzard came. In less than a few hours the flood became a frozen lake, hammered by driving sleet and snow in sub-zero temperatures. Men were frozen to death and frost-bite created thousands of casualties.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gallipoli Diaries: 1st Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers. To get started finding Gallipoli Diaries: 1st Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The 1st Bn Royal Dublin lFusiliers war diary is a meticulous transcription of the original Battalion diaries from the Gallipoli campaign of 1915-16. It is fully searchable. At the outbreak of the Great War the 1st Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers (RDF) was based in Madras India. In January 1915 the Battalion sailed to England, joining other Regular battalions from various outposts of the British Empire. The 1st Bn RDF formed part of the 86th Infantry Brigade, 29th Division. The Battalion departed with a strength of 28 Officers and 1,007 Other Ranks destined for Egypt then Gallipoli. Eight weeks later just 1 Officer and 374 Other Ranks answered the roll call. On 25th April 1915 the 1st Bn RDF and other elements of the 29th Division were part of the force that landed in ships’ cutters at V Beach alongside the SS River Clyde, a collier deliberately run aground adjacent to the strategic Ottoman fort of Sedd El Bahr. The troops came under extremely intense fire as they attempted to row ashore and casualties were very high. The RDF war diary is tragically missing for this period, however the Commanding Officer of the 1st Bn Royal Munster Fusiliers on board the SS River Clyde along with a Company of the 1st Bn RDF recorded the chaotic scenes in detail; 25th Apr 1915.As the RIVER CLYDE came inshore a very heavy fire from rifles, machine guns and pom-poms was directed at her and also on the boats’ tows that ran in alongside soon after. This fire was so accurate that those in the boats were practically wiped out and very few got ashore. Wounded men jumped from the boats and took cover on the port side but were all eventually shot down and drowned…. The Battalion would stay in theatre for eight months and took part in some of the most brutal fighting on the peninsula. Fighting at Gallipoli was a fairly unique experience. With their backs to the sea the British forces were rarely out of danger. Most of the ‘rest areas’ were within the range of the Ottoman artillery and were constantly under threat. Artillery and artillery ammunition was in short supply on both sides, so the campaign did not experience the scale of bombardments seen on the Western Front. Despite this, danger came in many other forms. The physical conditions were extreme. The masses of decaying corpses at the height of the Mediterranean summer became breeding grounds for plagues of flies. Few truces were arranged to bury bodies and the flies spread disease rapidly. Dysentery afflicted most men at some stage further adding to the misery. Non-battle casualties were horrendous. In August 1915, the 1st Bn RDF supported what was to be the largest offensive made during the whole campaign in the Battle of Scimitar Hill on 21st August 1915. It was a failure and was to be the last mass offensive action of the whole campaign. On 10th Oct 1915 the 29th Division took stock of its casualties to date and counted the number of ‘originals’ who had landed on 25th April some six months earlier. Only 143 of the 1,035 ‘originals’ answered the roll call that day. Most of the remaining originals had been wounded or sick, evacuated, recovered and returned. Only 57 had never left the Gallipoli peninsula. As stalemate set in the blistering heat of the summer gave way to cooler weather, then rains and finally the winter. At the end of November a freak storm of hurricane force winds battered the peninsula. The torrential rain triggered flash floods that burst the sandbag walls, drowning men and inundating the trenches. Then the blizzard came. In less than a few hours the flood became a frozen lake, hammered by driving sleet and snow in sub-zero temperatures. Men were frozen to death and frost-bite created thousands of casualties.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gallipoli Diaries: 1st Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers. To get started finding Gallipoli Diaries: 1st Bn Royal Dublin Fusiliers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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