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Colonel
Manders, Godley’s ADMS, who had worked so hard to make
sure that this battle would not see the tragedy of the wounded at the landing
repeated, was conscious of failure and new that all his medical resources were
exhausted. He wrote in his private diary : “The lines of communication
have broken down” and “completed 31 years of service-only one more”. The
next day he was dead, ...
"Gallipoli-The New
Zealand Story",
(Auckland 1998), Christopher Pugsley, p. 305
When the destroyer ceased firing (*)
Harry Mackesy
(**) and the
bombing squad scrambled up the cliff face … Half the squad went with Harry and
I, with the other half, went straight ahead to cut the Turks off at the rear …
In the pitch black darkness I fell into the first trench on top of the cliff
and then ran on falling across two narrow trenches, but I did not stop until I
reached the high ground on the far side of No 3 Outpost.
Sergeant Stevens (AMR) quoted in
"Gallipoli-The
New Zealand Story",
(Auckland 1998), Christopher Pugsley, p. 273
(*) bombardment by a destroyer of Old Outpost No 3 on 6th
August at 9 pm.
(**) Harry
Mackesy is the son of Colonel "German Joe" Mackesey of the NAMR.
Last updated : 01/12/06
Aubrey Herbert was present when Colonel Neville Manders was
killed :
Bullets came streaming down our valley, and we put up a
small wall of sacks, 3 feet high, behind which we slept. I was sitting at
breakfast this morning listening to Colonel Manders talking, when suddenly I
saw Charlie B. put his hand to his own head and say: "By G----, he's killed!"
Manders fell back dead, with a bullet through his temple; he was a very good
fellow.
diary entry of 9th August - "Mons,
Anzac & Kut", (London 1930), Aubrey Herbert, p. 180
By
10.00 pm the post had been
taken, 100 Turks were dead and a few were prisoners. Auckland’s losses
were seven dead, including Mackesy, who died from his wounds, and 15 wounded.
"Gallipoli-The New
Zealand Story",
(Auckland 1998), Christopher Pugsley, p. 273
100 metres
away,
New Zealand No. 2 Outpost Cemetery
(Identified : 2, Unknown : 150, Special Memorials : 31) was created from burials
carried out by the Canterbury Infantry Regiment and is in fact one long grave
which was made in September 1915.
"2002 Brochure of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission"