The Army Corps Reserve was the 29th Brigade, 10th Division (less one battalion), the 38th Brigade, 13th Division, and two battalions of the 40th Brigade. * * * * * [Sidenote: HIS ARRANGEMENT OF THE FORCE] For the approach and first assault General Godley divided this force as follows, assigning to each of the four parts the objective mentioned below: (1) _Right Covering Force_-- Brigadier-General A. H. Russell, New Zealand Mounted Rifles-- New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade (Auckland, Canterbury, and Wellington Regiments); Otago Mounted Rifles Regiment (Divisional Troops); New Zealand Engineers Field Troop; The Maori Contingent (about 500 under Lieut.-Colonel A. H. Herbert). This force was to advance up Sazli Beit and Chailak Deres, and seize Old No. 3 Post, Big Table Top, and Bauchop Hill. (2) _Right Assaulting Column_-- Brigadier-General F. E. Johnston, New Zealand Infantry Brigade-- New Zealand Infantry Brigade (Auckland, Canterbury, Otago, and Wellington Battalions); 26th Indian Mountain Battery (less one section); No. 1 Company New Zealand Engineers. This assaulting column was to follow the covering force up the Sazli Beit and Chailak Deres, and push on to the attack of Chunuk Bair. (3) _Left Covering Force_-- Brigadier-General J. H. du B. Travers, 40th Infantry Brigade-- Two Battalions of the 40th Infantry Brigade, _i.e._ 4th South Wales Borderers and 5th Wiltshire; Half the 72nd Field Company Royal Engineers. This force was to occupy Damakjelik Bair so as to cover the advance up Aghyl Dere, and to come into touch with the troops landing at Suvla. (4) _Left Assaulting Column_-- Brigadier-General H. V. Cox, 29th Indian Infantry Brigade-- 29th Indian Infantry Brigade (14th Sikhs, 5th, 6th, and 10th Gurkha Rifles); 4th Australian Infantry Brigade (13th New South Wales, 14th Victoria, 15th Queensland and Tasmania, 16th South and West Australian Battalions); 21st Indian Mountain Battery (less one section); No. 2 Company New Zealand Engineers. This left assaulting column was to advance up the Aghyl Dere to the attack on Koja Chemen (Hill 971), and at the same time to protect the left flank of the whole force as soon as it had cleared its own covering force. The Divisional Reserve was made up of remaining battalions of the 13th Division under Major-General F. C. Shaw, two battalions being stationed at Chailak Dere, and the 39th Brigade at Aghyl Dere, with half the 72nd Field Company R.E. The total forces under General Godley’s command were estimated at about 12,000 men.[161] * * * * * For the sake of clearness, the ensuing movements may be divided into four stages of about twenty-four hours each, counting from evening to evening.