COVERED WITH GLORY.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1915, Page 8

COVERED WITH GLORY.

OUR MEN AT GALUPOLI. HOW GALLANT OFFICERS DIED. An interesting letter from General Sir Alexander Godley, dated Anzac, August 14, and describing some of the fighting that occurred on Gallipoli between August 6 and 12, has been received by the Hon. James Allen, Minister for Defence. Extracts from this were read in the House on Tuesday night by Mr, Allen. ''Both our brigades covered themselves with glory," says the New Zealand commander, "and really to 1 a great extent bore the brunt of the battle and to the greatest extent were responsible for our success as far as it went. Our Mounted Rifles Brigade formed the covering force, and cleared the front for the advance by the assaulting columns on the night of the oth. On the night of the 7th our Infantry Brigade gained a footing on the ridge and held it throughout the Bth and oth, when, completely exhausted, they had to be relieved on the night of the 9th by troops of the new armies, who unforunately lost it on the morning of the 10th. I cannot speak too highly of the conduct of the officers and men, and am desperately grieved that they should have suffered such heavy casualties. TWO GALLANT COLONELS. "Colonel Bauehop was desperately—l am afraid mortally—wounded, while most gallantly loading his men to the assault on the night of the flth, under most extraordinarily difficult conditions, and in a country where nothing but the most gallant troops could possibly have succeeded. I saw him after he was brought down, and though he was hardly conscious all he said was, 'I hope we did what you wanted,' and 'lt was glorious while it lasted.' Colonel Malone similarly was killed at the head of his battalion, at the very top of a ridge overlooking the Dardanelles, and is buried in a Turkish fort, which only a leader of most exceptional valor and courage could have captured. I can imagine no more fitting resting place for such a gallant soul. Colonel Findlay and Major Overton, of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, also Colonel Chapman of the Auckland Mounted Rifles, fell in the moat gallant manner, and both Moore and Moir, of the Otago Battalion, were splendid in the way they led their men. THE FIFTH AND THE MAORIS DO WELL. "The last lot of reinforcements, the sth, arrived while the fight was actually in progress. As they arrived to join the brigade they were at once dispatched to capture a Turkish trench, which they did most gallantly and without the slightest hesitation, and held on to the last of the battle. "The Maoris were heavily engaged, and fought as I expected they would in a maimer fully worthy of the traditions of their race."