LT-COLONEL DOUGHTY-WYLIE'S GRAVE
Doughty-Wylie,
who had spent a number of years in Turkey (*) as a soldier-diplomat and loved
the Turkish people, could not bring himself to bear arms against them and led
the attack armed only with his cane, cheering and encouraging the men forward
with no regard to his own safety. The troops swept on to the summit of Hill
141, where Doughty-Wylie was killed. He was buried where he fell; after the
war, the Turks insisted that their honoured friend should remain alone at the
scene of his final victory.
"Gallipoli", (London 2000),
Michael Hickey, p.
139
IF STONES COULD SPEAK - HELLES
back to if stones could speak
(*)
1907 :
British military Consul in Konya.
1909 : stopped the massacre of Armenian
Christians with 50 Turkish Soldiers.
1912-13 : commanded a red cross unit
serving with the Turks.
1913 : was awarded the Imperial Ottoman Order of
Mecdiye-2nd Class.
"Gallipoli", (London 2000),
Michael Hickey, p.
139
men got up
to and passed him actually over the castle walls; personally, I noticed him on
two or three occasions always in front and cheering his men on.
As soon as I came up and realized that he was dead, I took his watch, money and
a few things I could find and had him buried where he fell. I had this done at
once, having seen such disgusting sights of unburied dead in the village that I
could not bear to have him lying there.
Colonel Williams quoted in "Helles Landing-Gallipoli", (Barnsley-2003), Huw &
Jill Rodge, p. 161
I came up shortly after he had fallen; the men round about were full of admiration and sorrow. They told me he was first the whole way up the slope and it was only in the last few yards that some four or five
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