A ONE MAN LANDING AT BULAIR.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 141, 4 February 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

A ONE MAN LANDING AT BULAIR.

Some of the gallant deeds of the Royal Naval Division in Gallipoli are described in a despatch irom Renter s special correspondent, who says that of all the British divisions on the peninsula, none, with the exception of the 29th, has seen more and more varied work and fighting than the Royal Naval Division.

With the exception of the Plymouth Battalion of the Royal Marines, none of the R.N.I), took part in the landing oil April 25th. The greater part of the division waii sent up to the head of the? Gulf of Sams to carry out demonstrations at Bulair and on the Thracian side of the gulf. Here one of the finest deeds of gallantry recorded during the campaign was performed by Commander Fre:burg. a New Zealander, serving with the RoynJ Naval Division. It had been recided to send a boat ashore at Bulair to light flares on the beach and make the Turks think that a landing was to lie attempted there. The commander, who is an exceptionally fine swimmer, volunteered to swim ashore alone in the dark and light the flares himself, pointing out that the boat's crew would be running very great risk. The offer was accepted, and the officer swam ashore, crept up to the Turkish trenches until he could hear the men talking, to make sure of his ground; then he returned to the beach and lit a flare lie had brought with him. At once the Turks took alarm, rifle fire was opened on the beach, and the New Zealander, knowing that the water was safer than the shore, swam down the coast half a m:le, then went ashore and lit a second flare. By this time the hills were alive with the enemy, and Commander Freiburg took to the water again and swam off to meet a destroyer which was to pick him up. He had to swim about for an hour before she found him.