g behind. We were able to do a lot of
work, collecting the wounded beside a water supply, nearly two miles
from where we started. After a time I left the men where they had
plenty of work, and went forward by myself for some distance, past the
"Five Towers," meeting scores of walking cases and assisting where I
could. Shells, especially from the Asiatic side, were numerous, three
big ones bursting quite near me. After a time I ordered the men to
load their stretchers and had some trouble with a General who insisted
on our remaining, but about this time we were to go out to our own
Brigade, and I marched them off all fully loaded. Things were not
looking too well and the General wished to get the wounded collected
as quickly as possible. But we had to go, we had been ordered to a
point further to the left "about 4 o'clock".

The A.D.M.S. had seen Morris and suggested that I should not go out
again, so I remained behind and formed a Divisional Collecting Station
for all cases that passed the lighthouse. Morris now went out with his
men, mine remaining to assist me. We soon had several hundreds through
our hands, largely stretcher cases which we arranged in rows in front
of the ruins of the lighthouse, till we had more than we could do
with, and soon had to forward most of our cases to W. Beach. At
midnight we still retained about thirty-five cases, and all had to be
nursed and protected from the bitterly cold wind and rain as best we
could. The men willingly parted with their own coats and ground
sheets, and some even their tunics. We all spent a most miserable
night, and I never all my life felt the cold so acutely. But by
morning, in spite of this, most of the wounded had recovered from the
initial shock and were much brighter, and we had them forwarded to the
88th H.Q.

The chief reason for our not retaining over night a much larger number
was that most hopeless accounts of the battle were being received from
the wounded, that all our line was in retreat and that before morning
we would be forced back to the sea, if not to our boats. I called for
volunteers, at the suggestion of Major Bell, to go out and assist, and
a number went off at once with their stretchers and did yeoman
service, some not returning till 3 a.m. The Turks had been mutilating
the wounded--at least so it was said--and we were anxious none should
again fall into their hands.

Through the night firing was heard a very short distance off, but this