Second Edition. At The Dardanelles

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 100, 28 August 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. At The Dardanelles

AN AUSTRALIAN LIST. United Pkess Association. Sydney, August 28. Killed in action.—Eleven officers and twenty men. Died of Wounds.—Fifty-three. Died of .Illness.—Five men. W6untl,ed:—Eleven officers and 44-3 men, including Corporal 11. E. Price, Privates C. E. Hateman, and A. R.| Bailey. ( I In hospital at He.liopolis.-L. (Gordon, W. J. Bailey. | In hospital at Ghezireh.—E. A. Kearns. i In hospital at Alexandria.— R. C. Wright (second occasion and ill). W ■ Spratt (ill) New Zealanders.. ni.—Four officers and fifty-seven men. Missing.—Seven officers. ' Captain He.an, in a cable describing the recent deseprate fighting, as cover-; ,-cl by Mr Ashaiead Bartlett's message.! says' the work in the forward trenches "was a series of desperate and often wildly adventurous combats, and the feats were as fine as any accomplished ' in this war. Regarding the First and Third Australian Light Horse Brigade's attempt to capture the crenelles opposite them, he says that for sheer self-sacrifice and heroism this charge is unsurpassed in history. Athens states that forty thousand Turks are being hurriedly sent to the • Dardanelles from Constantinople. Many ships in the harbor and the principal government buildings have been transformed into hospitals. London, August 27. The casualties at Gallipoli during the past eight days include' 780 officers, 205 of*whom were Australians and 109 New Zealanders. A hundred and sixtv-six of these are dead.