THE DARDANELLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 20, 24 May 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES. P»SM /if-iOIAT(f>N Sydney. .May 23. The twenty-first casualty list is:— Died ol‘ Wounds.—General Bridges. Quartermaster-Sergeants Saltan and Harvey, Lance-Corporals Woodrey and i Watson, Privates Hodgkin son. Blankhay. George, Hughe. McKcnnan, Hac'che, Morrisey, Fry, McJurnkin. McGhie. Rapley, Sparshott, -Mahoney, Barton, Anstee, Crowley. Davis. Fahy, Francis Laniond, Palin, Redpath, Ragles. Waters. Irwin, Kearns, Ross, Miller, Stewart, Perkins, Hunt, Poole, ( Radford, Harvey, Cowell, Fairheard, Silvester, Flphiek, Habhlett, Birmingham ahree of whom were previously reported wounded). I Died of Disease.—-Private Proctor. Died through Accident.—Private Williams. I Wounded.—One hundred and fiftyeight non-commissioned officers and men. I The twenty-first casualty list brings the total to:—Killed 351, wounded 2089, officers missing 6. ; Melbourne, May 22.

Captain S. S. Hunter, of Bendigo, has been killed at the Dardanelles. He was an amateur sprinter, and ran dead-beat with Smith in the ]ooyds Australasian Championship at Auckland in 1902, and secured the championship in 190-1. Melbourne, May 23. Mr Harcourt (Secretary for the Colonies), in cabling sympathy, announced that General Bridges had been gazetted K.C.B. Lord Liverpool has cabled New Zealand’s sorrow. PRESS BUREAU REPORT. London, May 23. The Press Bureau says French forces in conjunction with the British considerably advanced on the 19th in the southern area of the peninsula. Our aeroplanes dropped bombs on Turkish reinforcements landing at Akbashi and Liman, and caused considerable losses.

Sir lan Hamilton’* report shows that two thousand Turks were killed out of seven thousand casualties inflicted by the Australasians on the 19th.