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the first "hotel de charme" on the Gallipoli peninsula
The crown of the 400
plateau …was nearly level, except that a valley (Owen’s gully) biting into its
inland side, divided it into the two heart-like lobes before mentioned. The
narrower and northern lobe … was in later weeks opposite the muzzles of
Colonel G.J. Johnston’s (*) field guns, and became known as “Johnston’s
Jolly”.
"The Story of Anzac", (Sydney 1981) Volume I, Charles E. W. Bean, p. 339.
(*) Johnston’s guns, in the current slang of the troops, used to “Jolly up”
the Turks there.
"THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT“ is a quotation from the Apocrypha (Ecclesiasticus 44, verse 13) which appears on all "Special Memorial E" headstones. The "Kipling Memorial headstone", as it is also know, commemorate casualties whose graves in a particular cemetery were destroyed or who were known to be buried there but whose exact whereabouts within the cemetery were not recorded. (information provided by Terry Denham)
Private John Wilson Jones, is one of the 6.993 Joneses who were killed between 1914 and 1918 while in service of the Common Wealth Forces ... nearly 5 Joneses died every day for the duration of the war. (information collected from the CWGC website)
