ANZAC COVE.
Photo by Lieut.-Col. Millard.
FIVE MONTHS AT ANZAC
A NARRATIVE OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCES OF THE OFFICER COMMANDING THE 4th FIELD AMBULANCE, AUSTRALIAN IMPERIAL FORCE
By
JOSEPH LIEVESLEY BEESTON
C.M.G., V.D., L.R.C.S.I., Colonel A.A.M.C. Late O.C. 4th Field Ambulance, late A.D.M.S. New Zealand and Australian Division
WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
SYDNEY
ANGUS & ROBERTSON LTD.
89 CASTLEREAGH STREET
1916
W.C. Penfold & Co. Ltd., Printers,
183 Pitt Street, Sydney.
DEDICATED TO
THE OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE 4th FIELDAMBULANCE, A.I.F., OF WHOSE LOYALTY AND DEVOTION TO DUTY THE WRITERHEREBY EXPRESSES HIS DEEP APPRECIATION.
CONTENTS
- FOURTH FIELD AMBULANCE
- THE VOYAGE
- EGYPT
- TO GALLIPOLI
- THE ANZAC LANDING
- AT WORK ON THE PENINSULA
- INCIDENTS AND YARNS
- AIR FIGHTING
- THE OFFICERS' MESS
- THE ARMISTICE
- TORPEDOING OF THETRIUMPH
- THE DESTROYERS
- THE INDIAN REGIMENTS
- THE SWIMMING
- TURKISH PRISONERS
- POST OFFICE
- SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS
- SIMPSON
- CHURCH SERVICES
- THE ENGINEERS
- TURKS ATTACK
- RED CROSS
- PREPARING FOR THE ADVANCE
- THE ATTEMPT ON SARI BAIR
- AMBULANCE WORK
- ARTILLERY
- TURKS AS FIGHTERS
Shortly after the outbreak of War—after the first contingent hadbeen mobilised, and while they were undergoing training—it becameevident that it would be necessary to raise another force to proceed onthe heels of the first. Three Infantry Brigades with their Ambulanceshad already been formed; orders for a fourth were now issued, andnaturally the Ambulance would be designated Fourth Field Ambulance.
The Fourth Brigade was composed of the 13th Battalion (N.S.W.), 14th(Victoria), 15th (Queensland) and 16th (Western Australia)—commandedrespectively by Lieutenant-Colonel Burnage, Lieutenant-Colonel