HAZİRAN 1915 - Bir Düşman Mevzisi..
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HAZİRAN 1915 - Bir Düşman Mevzisi..
A section of trench at Quinn’s Post in July 1915
A section of trench at Quinn’s Post in July 1915. Over the top of the sandbags the trench ran on into the Turkish lines just metres away. The wooden structure above the sandbags is probably part of the sloping wooden frames with wire netting erected in mid-June 1915 by the Wellington Battalion under Lieutenant-Colonel William Malone. It was during this period that the New Zealanders gradually established a superiority in bomb-throwing over their Turkish enemies. Charles Bean wrote;
On June 13th the two companies of the Wellington Battalion then in the trenches threw 170 bombs. Next day, one company threw 212, and on later occasions more than 300 were sometimes expended.
[Charles Bean, The Story of Anzac, Vol 1I, Sydney, 1924, p 252] [G01027]