World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey -- Gallipoli Peninsula
[98] From an account privately written by a friend who knew
Doughty-Wylie intimately, I may quote the following sentences: “As the
result of many wounds, he had suffered in health and had transferred
from the army to the Consular Service, and had spent some years in Asia
Minor. I arrived in Adana after the massacres in 1909, just before he
left for Abyssinia, and stayed at the Consulate, learning much from
him about those terrible days of the preceding April. My memories
are permeated with a sense of his oneness with all the warring sects
in that fanatical province. He was the emblem of what they needed:
unity--greatness of heart and mind--an entire absence of self-seeking
or pride.... An Armenian girl described the scene to me: ‘We were all
in a church, hundreds of us huddled together, and the Turks set light
to it. But he came, the Consul Anglais. He forced his way through the
mob, and we saw his face. “Come, my children,” he called to us, and
we followed him out. Like frightened sheep we were, but he calmed us
and led us to safety.’ ... ‘The oppressor is often in the right, and
the oppressed always,’ he used playfully to quote to me.” A permanent
monument to Doughty-Wylie and Walford was erected in Seddel Bahr.
[99] _With the Twenty-ninth Division_, p. 191.
[100] The battalions in the brigades were: 125th Brigade, the 5th, 6th,
7th, and 8th Lancashire Fusiliers; 126th Brigade, the 4th and 5th East
Lancashire, and the 9th and 10th Manchester; the 127th Brigade, the
5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Manchester.
[101] In _Australia in Arms_, pp. 136–139, Phillip Schuler gives a
detailed account, obviously derived from officers who were present.
[102] Sir Ian’s dispatch; and _Australia in Arms_, pp. 139–142.
[103] _With the Twenty-ninth Division_, p. 189. The one surviving
officer of the Dublin Fusiliers was Lieutenant O’Hara, afterwards
mortally wounded at Suvla Bay.
[104] _The Immortal Gamble_, p. 145.
[105] Abdul Hamid died at last in Constantinople, February 1918.
[106] The submarine campaign began with E2, 11, 14, and 15; four or
five were subsequently added. Some were lost. On May 25 the E11 also
torpedoed the transport _Stamboul_ inside the Golden Horn, causing
great panic. On April 30 the Australian AE2 had been lost at the
entrance of Marmora. Her crew were taken prisoner.
[107] For the state of Constantinople at this time, see _Inside
Constantinople_, by Lewis Einstein, special agent at the American
Embassy, and _Two War Years in Constantinople_, by Dr. Harry
Stürmer, correspondent of the _Kölnische Zeitung_, but a writer of
decidedly pro-Entente sympathies.
[108] In this attack Mr. Asquith’s son Arthur (Hood Battalion), and
Lieutenant-Commander Josiah Wedgwood, M.P., who had come out with the
machine-gun section, were wounded.
[109] Compare Ashmead Bartlett’s _Dispatches from the
Dardanelles_, p. 118.
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