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Wednesday <strong>April</strong> <strong>19</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
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BAY HARBOUR<br />
PAGE 11<br />
to life<br />
POIGNANT: A giant sculpture of Dr<br />
Fenwick is on display as part of the The<br />
Scale of Our War exhibition at Te Papa<br />
(far left), and as a Lieutenant Colonel<br />
outside his dugout in Anzac Cove.<br />
The Gallipoli landing:<br />
“We were frightfully<br />
hampered by our kit –<br />
overcoat, revolver, glasses,<br />
map case, haversack, three<br />
days rations, firewood, Red<br />
Cross satchel, water bottle<br />
– like elephants. It was a<br />
certainty that we would<br />
drown if we got stuck.<br />
“After waiting, a steam<br />
picket boat came along in<br />
charge of a very fat rosy midshipman.<br />
He took a string of<br />
boats in tow and we were off.<br />
Our boat grounded about 50<br />
feet from the shore and we<br />
all hopped out. Of course, I<br />
fell into a hole up to my neck.<br />
I could hardly struggle ashore<br />
and when I did the first thing<br />
I saw was Beck sitting on a<br />
stone, roaring with laughter at<br />
us. Bill Beck was the first New<br />
Zealander of Godley’s force<br />
to get on to Gallipoli.”<br />
On treating the wounded:<br />
“Several dead men were<br />
lying on the beach . . . every<br />
minute the numbers increased<br />
and, as in addition<br />
fresh troops came ashore<br />
with mules and ammunition,<br />
the chaos became<br />
appalling . . . this state<br />
of things lasted all day.<br />
It seemed impossible for<br />
men to live under the hail of<br />
bullets. Capt Craig dressed<br />
over 100 cases under fire.<br />
One of his assistants had<br />
his finger shot off while<br />
helping him. Men were constantly<br />
hit in our station and<br />
their pluck and devotion in<br />
continuing their work under<br />
these galling conditions is<br />
hopelessly above praise.<br />
“At midnight I got four<br />
big horse boats, which<br />
held 12 stretchers on the<br />
bottom and I packed in<br />
less severe cases along<br />
the sides, sitting, kneeling,<br />
lying – anyhow, about 120<br />
all told. I got these four off<br />
at last at 1.30, and lay down<br />
in the rain at the side of<br />
the hill. I certainly was very<br />
astonished that I was alive.<br />
A more hellish Sunday one<br />
could not conceive.”<br />
“Total to date 5000 (approximately)<br />
casualties,<br />
about three men per yard of<br />
ground gained.”<br />
On burying the dead:<br />
“The most ghastly day. This<br />
morning I was ordered to act<br />
as the [delineating] officer for<br />
the burial of the dead<br />
. . . raining heavily. I got a loan<br />
of a dead or missing man’s<br />
overcoat and was all right.<br />
“We were met by some<br />
Turkish officers who arrived<br />
on horseback followed by<br />
50 very fine looking Turks,<br />
carrying Red Crescent and<br />
white flags. One of the officers<br />
was a German doctor.<br />
We were introduced by our<br />
interpreters and moved up<br />
the hillside in two long lines.<br />
Every 100 yards or so we<br />
stationed a man with a white<br />
flag, and opposite to him the<br />
Turks posted one of their<br />
men. We clambered through<br />
dripping bushes, with beautiful<br />
poppies and flowers.<br />
“Coming over the crest of<br />
the hill, I found the first New<br />
Zealander, lying on his face.<br />
Poor lad! A few yards climb<br />
brought us on a plateau, and<br />
a most awful sight was here.<br />
The Turkish dead lay so thick<br />
that it was almost impossible<br />
to pass without treading<br />
on the bodies. The awful<br />
destructive power of high<br />
explosive was very evident.<br />
Huge holes surrounded by<br />
circles of corpses, blown to<br />
pieces. One shell had fallen<br />
and set fire to a bush, as a<br />
dead man lay charred to the<br />
bone. Everywhere on looked<br />
lay dead, swollen, black, hideous,<br />
and overall a nauseating<br />
stench that nearly made<br />
one vomit.<br />
“Behind us for at least<br />
two miles, we could see<br />
our burial parties working<br />
furiously. In some cases the<br />
dead actually formed part<br />
of the trench wall. It was a<br />
terrible sight to see arms and<br />
legs sticking out of the sand,<br />
underneath the sandbags . . .<br />
I left, feeling deadly ill.<br />
“I only saw about 10 of ours<br />
but, at a very modest estimate,<br />
I saw 2000 dead Turks.<br />
The Turkish officers were<br />
charming. The Germans<br />
were rude and dictatorial<br />
and accused us of digging<br />
trenches. I lost my temper<br />
(and my German) and told<br />
him the corpses were so<br />
decomposed they could<br />
not be lifted and our men<br />
were merely digging pits<br />
to put the awful things into.<br />
The Turkish medico was extremely<br />
nice. We exchanged<br />
cigarettes and I said to him I<br />
hoped that after the war we<br />
should smoke a cigarette.’’<br />
“If this is war, I trust NZ<br />
will never be fool enough to<br />
forget that to avoid war one<br />
most [must] be too strong to<br />
invite war.”<br />
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