The 5th Royal Irish Regiment were Divisional Pioneers. Only about 60 per cent. of the men in these battalions were Irish, the rest being chiefly North-country miners and Somerset. For the complete list of the battalions in this Division, the Artillery, Engineers, etc., see _The Tenth (Irish) Division in Gallipoli_, by Major Bryan Cooper, pp. 2 and 3. [146] I am unable to give the exact formations of these Divisions. The battalions were changed shortly before they left England. From dispatches and other sources, however, one can make the following list: _53rd (Welsh) Division_: 158th Brigade (Brigadier-General E. A. Cowans)-- 5th, 6th, and 7th Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and the 1/1st Herefordshire. 159th Brigade (Brigadier-General F. C. Lloyd)-- 4th and 7th Cheshires, and the 4th and 5th Welsh. 160th Brigade (Brigadier-General J. J. F. Hume)-- 4th Queen’s (Royal West Surrey), 4th Royal Sussex, a composite Kent Battalion, and the 10th Middlesex. _54th (East Anglian) Division_: 161st Brigade (Brigadier-General C. M. Brunton)-- 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Essex. 162nd Brigade (Brigadier-General C. de Winton)-- 10th and 11th London, 5th Bedfordshire, and 4th Northants. 163rd Brigade (Brigadier-General Brunker, later under F. F. W. Daniell)-- 4th and 5th Norfolks, 5th Suffolks, and 8th Hants. [147] _Uncensored Letters_, p. 170. There were 10 French planes. [148] Our estimates of the enemy’s forces for the days of fighting in August were: +-----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+ | Date. | Suvla.| Anzac. | Helles.| Reserve. | +-----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+ |August 6–7 | 3,000 | 25,000 | 33,000 | 39,000 | | „ 8 | 5,000 | 31,000 | 33,000 | 20,000[A]| | „ 9 | 7,000 | 38,000 | 33,000 | 20,000[B]| | „ 10 | 9,000 | 38,000 | 33,000 | 25,000 | | „ 11 | 13,000 | 38,000 | 33,000 | 25,000 | | „ 15 | 20,000 | 47,000 | 15,000 | 12,000 | | „ 22 | 26,000 | 41,000 | 15,000 | 12,000 | +-----------+--------+--------+--------+----------+ [A] 11,000 marching south. [B] 2000 marching south. [149] Part of this small and undisciplined body actually landed, but meeting with opposition rapidly withdrew to the ship in characteristic disorder, assuming their object to be accomplished. [150] “_Special Order_. “GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, MEDITERRANEAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, _August 5, 1915_. “SOLDIERS OF THE OLD ARMY AND THE NEW.--Some of you have already won imperishable renown at our first landing, or have since built up our footholds upon the Peninsula, yard by yard, with deeds of heroism and endurance. Others have arrived just in time to take part in our next great fight against Germany and Turkey, the would-be oppressors of the rest of the human race.