THE "LOST LEGION."

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2029, 16 August 1920, Page 9

THE "LOST LEGION."

GALLIPOLI EPIC. A MEMORIAL PROPOSED. By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. (A. & N.Z.I LONDON, Aug. 11. The King contemplates the erection of a memorial on Gallipoli Peninsula to the "lost legion" of Xorfolks who mysteriously disappeared. The majority of the men worked on the Royal-estates at Sandringham. [A previous message said :—Sir lan Hamilton's dispatch, describing the fighting on August 12, 1915, alluded to the fate of the Irish and Norfolk Territorials, including the Sandringham Company, as a very mysterious affair. The Graves Registration officers on Gallipoli have now proved that Colonel Sir 11. Beauchamp and 10 olllcers and 2")0 men, pushed on steadily from Suvla Bay. All were killed fighting, and their skeletons have been found unburied, facing the Turkish position, where they fell, a mile beyond what became the front line. Fifty were found alongside a party of Turks, and had evidently died in a hand-to-hand conflict. Not a man was captured, wounded or unbounded.)