red in anger,
they were to be plunged right into the fiery and bloody whirlpool of
war.

Gallipoli, as it looked from the decks of the troopships, even in the
wonderful dawn of that August Saturday morning, had a mysterious and
sinister appearance. The men saw yellow clayey cliffs, rising almost
sheer from intensely blue water, and beyond these a huddle of pointed
and desolate hills, to which no access seemed visible. To their right
they could see Achi Baba--a head and shoulders, with two arms
extending on each side to the sea--dominating the end of the
Peninsula, like a Chinese idol, inscrutable, and disdainful of the
shells from the battleships which raised clouds of smoke and dust
about its face. The general objective of all the troops engaged in
this new enterprise--English, Scotch, and Welsh Territorials, as well
as the Irish Division of the new Armies--was the capture of the
Anafarta Hills, a network of ravines and jungles to the north of the
high mountain of Sari Bair, the key of the situation in this upper
part of the Peninsula. The Australians, New Zealanders, and Maoris had
been attacking Sari Bair since dark on Friday night, from their
position at Anzac, lower down the Peninsula.

The 10th Division was wholly Irish, save for one English battalion,
the 10th Hampshire Regiment. The 29th Brigade, composed of the 5th
Connaught Rangers, 6th Leinsters, 6th Irish Rifles, and the 10th
Hampshires, was detached from the Division, and landed at Anzac, to
co-operate with the Dominion Forces. But the other two Brigades were
entirely Irish. These were the 30th, consisting of the 6th and 7th
Dublin Fusiliers, 6th and 7th Munster Fusiliers; and the 31st,
consisting of the 5th and 6th Inniskilling Fusiliers, and the 5th and
6th Irish Fusiliers. In addition, there was the Pioneer Regiment, the
5th Royal Irish Regiment (Colonel, the Earl of Granard, K.P.), the
purpose of which was to facilitate the progress of the troops by
removing obstructions, but which also took part in the fighting. These
two Brigades had orders to clear the Turks out of the heights of
Karakol Dagh, a long ridge fronting the Gulf of Saros, to the north;
and to take a particular hill a few miles to the south, about three or
four miles inland from Suvla Bay. This hill is known to the Turks as
Yilghin Burnu. It was called Chocolate Hill by the invading army as
part of its surface had been burnt a dull brown by shell fire. The
Division was under the command