Curio

State Library of New South Wales

Crooks war diary, 6 August 1915

Purchased from Thomas Ray Crooks, 1919, MLMSS 838

Manuscript

‘We were greatly surprised when we saw Warships and Transports in Suvla Bay as we never heard they intended making another landing and what a “mess” it was, it being daylight when the movement commenced, with the result that the Turk Artillery played havoc among them as they advanced across open fields, we could see them falling in dozens …’
7 August 1915