command of Major Bishop. "It was," wrote
Sir Ian Hamilton, "to the complete lack of the sense of danger or of
fear of this daring battalion that we owed our astonishing success."
After a preliminary bombardment by the supporting warships the men of
the First Battalion, in thirty-two cutters drawn by eight picket
boats, approached the shore. The Turks made no move until the men were
in shallow water and were leaping out of the boats. Then they opened
fire with a murderous torrent from artillery, machine guns, and
rifles. The first line of the First Battalion went down to a man. The
second never faltered, but came on bravely into the fire, striving
desperately to cut the wire entanglements. So quickly did they fall
that observers on the warships wondered why they were "resting" on the
bullet swept shore instead of running to cover.

Rapidly the men from Lancashire worked. Finally a remnant of the
battalion forced its way through the last line of wire and ran for
shelter on the bush covered slopes. Almost at the same moment,
detachments that had landed on the rocks at Cape Tekke and under Cape
Hellas began to have an important effect upon the struggle. At the
latter point, the Eighty-eighth Brigade, under Brigadier General Hare,
clambered up the steep side of the cliffs, searched out the machine
gun positions of the enemy and swept the ground clear with the
bayonet. This and the work of the force at Cape Tekke eased the
Turkish fire on the beach and, on the slopes of the Cape Tekke side of
the ravine, the few remaining officers of the First Battalion were
able to re-form the remnants of their force and advance upon Hill 114.

About nine o'clock reenforcements were landed, this time not on the
exposed beach but under Cape Tekke, the heights of which were by now
largely in the hands of the British troops. With the help of these
fresh troops, three lines of Turkish trenches were carried. Brigadier
General Hare was seriously wounded and his place was filled by Colonel
Wolley-Dod, who was sent ashore with orders to organize a further
advance at all speed. At this point the attacking force ran up against
the Turkish redoubt at Hill 138.

The afternoon opened with an intense naval bombardment of the ground
around Hill 138 and of that redoubt itself. At two o'clock the Fourth
Battalion of the Worcesters was ordered to take the position by
assault. Under Lieutenant Colonel D. E. Cayley, they advanced a
considerable distance unde