THE ANZACS' LANDING

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 186, 26 April 1918, Page 6

THE ANZACS' LANDING

DESCRIBED. BY MAJOK ANDBEWS. Tho boys and girls of Mount Cook Schools assembled in the Central Mission Hall, Webb Street, ieut for the occasion, to hear an address oy Maj.or Andrews on the operations at Gallipoli. Tho headmaster, Mr. C. Bary, who presided, introduced Major Andrews, who in a ehort but very excellent address dealt with tho landing of the Anzacs at Gallipoli on April 25, 1915. He outlined the concentration of the troops at Mudroa, and painted a word picture of the departure of the transports, surrounded by warships, on April ti. He then touched on the landing of the Twenty-ninth Diviuion, tho division that covered itself with glory for tho extreme bravery and endurance, displayed by tho men. Ho then detailed tho landing of tho Anzacs under General Birdwood. The address was interspersed with stirring incidents, illustrating the fearful hazards of tho undertaking, and tho tenacity, pluck, and endurance of the men who took part in it. Major Andrews described how a stretcherbearer won the D.C.M. Ono boat landed several hundred yards north of the others, and the men in the boat wero not awavo that they were being covered by a Turkish machine-gun. Forty men were killed within a fow yards of the boat, and two days later- a rumour spread that a wounded man lay in the boat. Two stretcher-bearers volunteered to rescue him. and under cover, of ,an intense fire from the warships they crept down the beacli and rushed to the boat. Tho wounded man was got into the stretcher, and the bearers wero on the point cf reaching shelter when the rear boarer fell wounded. Tho other bearer immediately pithed the strotcner with the wounded man under cover, ami then went out and rescued the wounded bearer, and for this brave action he received the D.C.M. A vote of thanks to Major Andrews was carried with acclamation.