N.Z. Roll of Honour: Heroes Killed, Wounded, or who have Died from Sickness.

Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 39 (Supplement)

N.Z. Roll of Honour: Heroes Killed, Wounded, or who have Died from Sickness.

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Thro? V.C'.'s were announced in I lie “London Gl sotta” of August 24 as? having been awarded to an officer, an N.C.0.. and a );ri v . ■ .he Firs' Batta.ion of th? Lancashire Fu-iliers far “mast consp.cunus bravery and d.svoti.n to di ty” at the landing on Gallipoli Penin-nla on April 25. The three were Cap ain Richard Willis, Sergeant Allred R.cha ’ an.l Piivate V.: :;a u Kmeally. who, as the “Gaz:tto nr.tieo staged. were selected forthe Victoria Cross by the general voice of the:r c miracles. Our illustration shows he scene ;.l "Lancashire Landing.” as "W lie .c i is nr.v known all _v, r the Empire, a. the tim;- .lie heroic exploit took place. Apparently serious resistance was not ex pee: ,d at that point; but, as the boats with the roops got well ashore, the Tilths su'ld :niv ope.’. :d tiro o.i hem frjm hidden past' tons with shrapu:-!. machine-guns, and musketry.. The men sprang overboard, and, up) to the armpits, waded ashore, where a long stretch of bathed wire faced thorn. Captain Wi n- end a number of men wi.h him daringly got th.rugh the obstruction, and the survivors . f the party sheltered behind a mound, wh'n.e thev returned the Turkish fire. Thev had fust to clean .heir rift's wi 11 puli thr..ugbs. and even wi.h 1 oof h-brushes to get the sand out of the ba'uels. Meanwhile, o hers of tire regiment lay down close to the barbed wire '.o fire —only to be suddenly decimated by mac hidden Turkish machine-guns i.osted to flank the beach. With tresh men, they eventually made a way round the ends of ;he entanglement, and joined Captain Willis All thereupon charged the Turkish trenches, whore, in spite of the most stubborn resistance, the 'Turks were driven out In the end, the Lancashire.® worked up to the higherground commanding the beach, wli ;i - % m giitiail hoy held firmly ” —From TlltistraW L iu,on News.