[122] Such as Col. Crauford Stewart of the Hood (wounded) and Col. Roberts, R.A. (Egyptian Army), of the Anson (killed). [123] The original Collingwood, with the Hawke and Benbow Battalions, crossed the Dutch frontier in retiring from Antwerp, and were interned. The new battalions were left to complete their training in England, when the R.N.D. sailed. Thus the Collingwood (Commander Spearman, R.N.) was now for the first time under fire. The brother of Lieut.-Commander Freyberg (see p. 120) was killed on this occasion. The Collingwood relics and the Benbow were incorporated soon after this battle with the Hood, Howe, and Anson Battalions as the 2nd Naval Brigade--an arrangement resented on both sides, but inevitable owing to reduction of men. [124] Notes of the battle from hour to hour were taken by a French medical officer (_Uncensored Letters from the Dardanelles_, pp. 121–125). [125] This fine officer was killed in the battle of July 13. [126] One brigade of the R.N.D. alone lost 60 officers. [127] “The worst was that the wounded had not been got back, but lay between ours and the Turks’ firing line. It was impossible to get at some of them. The men said they could see them move. The firing went on without ceasing.... The General had suggested putting up a white flag, and some one going out to the wounded. They tried this later, but it failed” (_With the Twenty-ninth Division_, pp. 122, 123). Who the General was is left uncertain. The passage is from a diary of June 5. [128] _With the Twenty-ninth Division_, pp. 122–129. Of original officers in this famous division, the South Wales Borderers now had the most left. They had eight. [129] The loss, unhappily, included Colonel Giraudon, Chief of the Staff, who had been rashly put to command the 2nd Colonial Brigade of the 1st Division on this occasion--a serious, brave, and intellectual soldier. He was dangerously wounded, as was Colonel Noguès, commanding the 6th Colonial Regiment in that brigade, who with his regiment had distinguished himself greatly in the attack upon Kum Kali and elsewhere (see _Uncensored Letters from the Dardanelles_, p. 137). Colonel Giraudon returned to his position in the Dardanelles, and survived to do excellent work in France, where he was, however, ultimately killed in action. [130] Account by Mr. Compton Mackenzie, who acted as authorised correspondent for the London papers during Mr. Ashmead Bartlett’s temporary absence.