Both Captain C. E. W. Bean (Australian papers, Oct. 28, 1915) and Phillip Schuler (_Australia in Arms_, p. 275) mention these incidents, which were described to me on the spot a few days after they happened. Taken with Sir Ian’s dispatch, these two authorities give a clear idea of the confused fighting around Hill 60. For the action of the Connaught Rangers, _The Tenth (Irish) Division in Gallipoli_ should be read, as mentioned above. For myself, I had the great advantage of going over the ground with General A. H. Russell a day or two after the final action of August 29. [211] Lieut.-Colonel C. W. Gwynn was Chief of Staff. The Division consisted of: _5th Australian Brigade_ (Brigadier-General W. Holmes)--17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th Battalions. _6th Australian Brigade_ (Colonel R. S. Browne)--21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 24th Battalions. _7th Australian Brigade_ (Colonel J. Burston)--25th, 26th, 27th, and 28th Battalions. [212] _The Tenth (Irish) Division_, p. 197. [213] _The Tenth (Irish) Division_, p. 199. [214] One of the transports (the _Southland_), conveying a battalion of the 2nd Australian Division, was torpedoed on September 2, thirty-one miles from Mudros. The firemen took to the boats, but the engineers kept sufficient head of steam to work the pumps and electric light. Finding she was filling only slowly, they called for soldier volunteers to help with the stoking, and in an hour got steam up to the blowing-off point. The destroyer _Racoon_, which had come alongside, was then able to supply practised stokers, and they, with the engineers, stoked the boilers into Mudros harbour. [215] “It was not entirely an easy matter to assimilate these reinforcements. As a rule, a draft is a comparatively small body of men which easily adopts the character of the unit in which it is merged. In Gallipoli, however, units had been so much reduced in strength that in some cases the draft was stronger than the battalion that it joined, while it almost invariably increased the strength of what was left of the original unit to half as much again. As a result, after two or three drafts had arrived, the old battalions had been swamped.”--_The Tenth (Irish) Division_, p. 235. [216] _The Tenth (Irish) Division_, p. 229. The 54th Brigade remained in Egypt. [217] During this period of comparative inaction, it was announced that Flight-Lieutenant Edmonds in a seaplane sank a Turkish transport full of reinforcements with a heavy bomb, and that a submarine sank a transport of 11-inch guns in the Sea of Marmora (September 7).--_The “Times” History of the War_, Part 84, p. 211. [218] The full speech is quoted in _Nelson’s History of the War_, by Colonel John Buchan, vol. xi. p. 18. [219] See Sir Charles Monro’s dispatch on the Dardanelles evacuation.